Quotes About Absence

It's terrible never to find a father in a world chock-full of fathers of all sorts.

The worst is missing them, you know? And knowing they won't be back again. Just knowing that. Sometimes you forget and it's as though they're on vacation or something and you think, gee, I wish they'd call. You miss them. You forget they're really gone. You forget the past six months even happened. Isn't that weird? Isn't that crazy? Then you catch yourself . . . and it's real again.

'Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.

I went to Jimmy Gandolfini's funeral, and when I was there, I realized Jimmy Gandolfini didn't have Twitter.

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

After us, there was no more world to receive anyone.

Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear.

i do not give a sh*t, the toilet miss me now

Hang yourself brave Crillon. We fought at Arques and you were not there.

Oh, there was a wedding all right. Did I mention that my sister didn't show up at the church either, Mr. Clayborne?

We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

Preaching has become a byword for long and dull conversation of any kind; and whoever wishes to imply, in any piece of writing, the absence of everything agreeable and inviting, calls it a sermon.

It was so much more exquisite to long for somebody than to have her there beside him.

And we all go with them, into the silent funeral,Nobody's funeral, for there is no one to bury.I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon youWhich shall be the darkness of God.

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,And when you reach the scene of the crime—Macavity's not there!

The dancers are all gone under the hill.

His absence leaves us desperately looking for someone else to "fill in the blank." If the church doesn't do it, the gay community will. If the church doesn't do it, the gangs and drug lords will. If the church doesn't do it, the pornographers will. Empty sons will always look for someone to fill in the blank left by the father who isn't there.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

But if you've seen a dead body, you know how they change the air: that huge silence, the absence strong as a black hole, time stopped and molecules frozen around the still thing that's learned the final secret, the one he can never tell.

Selena had been singing along, absently, gazing into nowhere. She looked at us like she was trying to work out who we were, before she got up

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," he told me reproachfully.