Quotes About Absence

They had pointed out to him that even a year's leave of absence, should he choose to take one, would benefit the Crow's Nest, in the sense that he would return to it with fresh eyes and immediately see how beneficial changes might be made.

Where have all the young men gone? Gone to soldiers, every one.

The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.

Everything around me makes me miss you.

I think of you, I dream of you, I conjure you up when I need you most. This is all I can do, but to me it isn't enough. It will never be enough, this I know; yet what else is there for me to do? If you were here, you would tell me, but I have been cheated of even that. You always knew the proper words to ease the pain I felt. You always knew how to make me feel good inside.

I'm going to miss you while you're gone.

How can I tell them that I love them if I'm no longer there?

Absence might make the heart grow fonder,' 'I don't think that's possible ... You have no idea how much I love you.

And I'd be struck a new by the finality of Ruth's absence.

Whenever I get home the house becomes messy and chaotic. Kinvara, my daughter, said, 'Mummy, do you like it when Daddy is away, because the house is nice and clean?'

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

Neymar is the most important player in our national team. His absence is felt when he doesn't play. Same holds true for Barcelona. Such is his impact.

I knew now that the trouble with the dead wasn't that they overwhelmed you, that they haunted you and stifled you with memories. The trouble with the dead was that they packed up and left you, and there was nothing you could do to bring them back.

I would not want you to think of anything while you hunt, especially not of me.I would hope that would be too distracting.

He buried his face in her neck and held her in his arms, absorbing the form the shape of her, the miracle of her. It had been so long since he held her, loved her, taken all that she was and given her everything he was. I missed you. It was a ridiculous declaration. Missed her didn't begin to cover at all how he felt.

She was sitting up. She lifted and pulled at her blankets, but it was gone. The hippopotamus of wisdom was nowhere in sight.

Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead.

I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on—only henceforth in my absence. ... Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave.

For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the lights go out and there is total blackness. And if some part of the non-entity we called George has indeed been absent at this moment of terminal shock, away out there on the deep water, then it will return to find itself homeless.

Sometimes I wake up in the night when it's cold and wish he was there. You never seem to get really warm, sleeping alone.

There is one voice we never hear. God does not speak in the whole book of Lamentations.11 Heaven is silent. Which does not necessarily mean that heaven is deaf or blind. We shall consider later what Kathleen O'Connor calls 'the power of the missing voice'.

Privacy is a wonderful thing. Like love, privacy is most manifest in its absence.

She was meaning and order and light, and now that she's gone, chaos falls like a dark leaden cloud.

Joshua, my memory of Maggie isn't about what happened the night before we left. I didn't go to see her thinking that we would make love. A kiss was more than I expected. I think of Maggie because I made a place in my heart for her to live, and it's empty. It always will be. It always was. She loved you.