Quotes About Absence

What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it.

The good is not as good as the absence of bad.

This is the same error as mistaking absence of evidence for evidence of absence

mistaking absence of evidence (of harm) for evidence of absence

Pavese casi nunca hablaba de Leone. No le gustaba hablar de los ausentes ni de los muertos. Lo decía. Decía: «Cuando alguien se marcha o se muere trato de no pensar en él, porque no me gusta sufrir»

She's gone," he answered.

Bientôt ou dans un cycle, ce sera de nouveau son tour de me prouver la qualité de son feu. Je ne lui manquerai pas, elle ne me manquera pas--et tout sera consumé.

Can you feel this? He flattened her palm on his chest. His heart thudded rapidly against her palm. It always does this when you're near me. When you're not, I'm looking for you, feeling something missing. I'm not whole when you're not around. It took being with you again to discover how empty my life was without you in it. - Brady Fitzpatrick

This is one of the reasons why attempts at relationships so often fail—not because the vision of passionate or romantic love is intrinsically irrational, but because the self-esteem needed to support it is absent.

It must suffice, that, though my form be absent, my inner man goes constantly to church, while many, whose bodily presence fills the accustomed seats, have left their souls at home.

You may think I'm crazy, but I don't feel like I've done anything wrong. He deserved to die, so I've decided to pretend that he just went off somewhere instead of coming home tonight.

You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

I will always be there on the horizon,' I tell her. And with infinite sorrow, she says, 'I believe that. But sadly I am no longer looking out of that window.

Where are you, my dear Marie?

If not me, who? Will the scythe who replaces me be as compassionate and fair? I can accept a world without me in it . . . but I can't bear the thought of other scythes gleaning in my absence.

eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.

the best part was pulling down the shades stuffing the doorbell with rags putting the phone in the refrigerator and going to bed for 3 or 4 days. and the next best part was nobody ever missed me.

And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.

most give way leaving empty spaces where people should be.

is this how it works? in this room the hours of love still make shadows. when you left you took almost everything.

the most immense thing about beauty is finding it gone.

It was a month or so later that Red's family moved. One day they were gone. Just like that.

The absence of humanity is a fulfillment so graceful that even God would understand if he invented them, which he probably didn't.

Everything died off and disappeared in that silent way only an eon can absorb and keep secret.