Quotes About Absence

El recuerdo de un ser ausente se ilumina en las tinieblas del corazón, y cuanto más completamente va desapareciendo, más brilla; el alma desesperada y obscura ve esta luz en su horizonte como una estrella de la noche anterior.

Qué triste está el alma cuando está triste por el amor! ¡Qué vacío tan inmenso es la ausencia del ser que llena el mundo! ¡Oh! ¡Cuán verdadero es que el ser amado se convierte en Dios!

People left, and if you loved too deeply, too fiercely, their swift and sudden absence could chill you to the soul.

Elsa had made a point of never seeing them or speaking to them again, but even so, their absence caused an ache that wouldn't go away. Apparently you couldn't stop loving some people, or needing their love, even when you knew better.

Forever. That's how long we'll have an empty place at the table.

Inside, the house echoed the voice of a man who wasn't there.

Unlike me, Bobby will never know the nagging ache of an absent father; he will have the loss of his mother inside him, like a thin shadow on a bright day, standing close, but he won't have that dragging sense that he was unloved, somehow, unworthy

she hardly missed him. In fact, she didn't miss him at all. She missed the idea of him. She missed a second plate at the dinner table, another body in this bed that seemed to have enlarged in his absence.

You could always tell when Dad was gone. Everything was easier and more relaxed in his absence.

I think its just human nature to wish that the people who are gone from our lives are going to come back.

It does not take a math genius to understand that when you subtract a mother from the equation what remains is negative.

Thought It does not take a math genius to understand that when you subtract a mother from the equation what remains is negative.

It's not the parting or the absence that's sad. You love them, and that's why saying good-bye breaks your heart.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. (Maxims)

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.

Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.

Without his books, his room felt like a body with its hearts cut out.

and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.

Absence has presence, sometimes, and that was what she felt. Absence like crushed-dead grass were something has been and is no longer. Absence where a thread has been ripped, ragged, from a tapestry, leaving a gap that can never be mended.

In the darkness behind their shut lids they all saw the same thing: no color at all, only loss like a hole torn in the world.

He had melted away, and she felt his absence like a space cut from the air.

Such were the humble beginnings of the end of the world: the absence of dreams.

Ea era goalape pe dinauntru, golul parand o entitate maltioasa, tachinand-o cu toate lucrurile pe care nu avea sa le cunoasca niciodata.