Quotes About Absence

Sometimes there are things that people should be afraid of." "Like the dark?" She shook her head. "No, more the absence of light.

Why are there no names for the abscence of things? Why is there no name for the abscence of humanity?

Our fathers were often away. But then sometimes, out of the blue, they'd be gone forever. Often away and gone forever: the two phrases marked the difference between having a living father and a dead one. It wasn't a big difference, but it was big enough to make us cry when no one was looking. One

If I should meet thee After long years How should I greet thee? With silence and tears.

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe

Dead rats don't squeak.

Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing." Arya Stark

She could feel the hole inside her where her heart had been.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

I wonder where my big, black man has gone; Oh, I wonder where my big, black man has gone. Has he done got faded an' left me all alone?

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

The absent and inert girl hanging dreamless from my arms is no more foreign to me than the door or window through which I can look or pass.

Hell, Madame, is to love no longer.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

A gap will yawn, achingly, day by day, it will turn into a colossal pit, an abyss without foundation, a gradual invasion of words by margins, blank and insignificant, so that all of us, to a man, will find nothing to say.

Oh, the sudden change of perspective brought about by travel and absence! How different everything was here: the people in the streets, the houses, the color of the air, the sky above the roofs, a low sky, very close, with molded clouds, and which looked as if it had come out of a painting. A unique setting, a subtle atmosphere of silvery greys, the patina of centuries on the old walls—a shimmering marvel for the eyes of a painter. ("The Dead Town")

Testing may convincingly demonstrate the presence of bugs, but can never demonstrate their absence."- Edsger W. Dijkstra, Computing Pioneer (1930–2002), "Programming as a discipline of mathematical nature," Am. Math. Monthly, 81 (1974), No. 6, pp. 608–12.

As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish, he'd stay away.

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?