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Quotes About Absence

Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be moose there and the moose would fall.
~ Tao Lin
You were a quiet man, yet you took up a vast amount of silent space and that was what I missed.
~ Tatiana de Rosnay
Maybe over time I'll forget the feel and smell and sound of him, the same way I am starting to forget Mom, but I'll never be able to forget that he should've been here.
~ Tawni O'Dell
I know you're innocent, there is not one doubt in my mind, but I also know that you're not here.
~ Tayari Jones
emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.
~ Tayari Jones
Our house isn't simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.
~ Tayari Jones
But this is what loss has taught me of love. Our house isn't simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.
~ Tayari Jones
It matters that I didn't grow up with my father. It's kind of like having one leg that's a half inch shorter than the other. You can walk, but there will be a dip.
~ Tayari Jones
...it rains when youre here and it rains when youre gone.
~ Taylor Swift
Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you...
~ Taylor Swift
It rains in your bedroom/everything is wrong/it rains when you're here/and it rains when you're gone!
~ Taylor Swift
Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around...
~ Taylor Swift
Restoring the air supply cannot re-create what has evanesced.
~ Ted Chiang
Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to love and be subservient together. Nor had he ever thought of me as a human being, let alone a woman. For no reason had he ever softened towards me, I had stirred him that little.
~ Tehmina Durrani
I can't speak for others, but I miss my father.
~ Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
In the absence of specific solutions or evidence that we have people in Washington, D.C., who can make a significant difference... people will cling to those who at least speak to their frustrations.
~ Todd Young
I knew medicine only by its absence - specifically, the absence of a father growing up: one who went to work before dawn and returned in the dark to a plate of reheated dinner.
~ Paul Kalanithi
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous.
~ John Piper
Los Angeles has been known as the center of creativity but has often been equally known for the absence of spirituality.
~ Erwin McManus
I was 2 when my parents - actress Connie Stevens and singer Eddie Fisher - divorced. I was too young to experience the pain of their split, but it was rough growing up with a father who wasn't there.
~ Joely Fisher
Some wo/men are so possessive … you end up missing missing them.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.
~ Julius Caesar
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Crazytown was repelled by facts and knowledge, as oil fled from water, but was fascinated by the absence of hard facts, since it provided vacant space in which to construct elaborate edifices of speculation
~ Neal Stephenson