Quotes About Absence

When you've lost your girl, it doesn't much matter where you live. Everywhere is just The Place She Isn't, and that's the front and back of it.

What the sign meant. To lose your heart. When I go home, I shall leave mine here, and I don't think I shall ever have it back." -September

Innocence is, as Bernstein writes, not just an "absence of knowledge" but "an active state of repelling knowledge," embroiled in the statement, "Well, I don't see race" where I eclipses the seeing.

if her husband and children are suffering from her absence or her preoccupation with politics, then this is not Islam." It

[Of Oakland, California:] There is no there there.

Lo decepcionante no es tanto la liberación sexual como la ausencia de vida erótica, la transformación de la relación en rutina, la falta de comunicación entre las personas.

Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home.

the most real presence of all is the abscence of those we love.

Just like a character in a novel, he disappeared suddenly, without leaving the slightest trace behind.

One left; things shifted in one's absence; one returned to something else. Time frustrated all. There was no sneaking past its rough guard, even to get to one's own yard of intimacies.

rampole isn't here and nobody knows when she'll be back

It was a terrible refreshment, his plain way, the simple words, the absence of strategy. It made you realize how much of your life you spent not being like that. It made you realize what a waste not being like that was.

The absense of a soul, by the way, makes it easy to inhabit a body. (Therefore, why is Elton John still pudging around unpossessed? I hear you ask?)

What would it be like without Him?

How to describe hell? Disembowelled landscape busy with suffering, incessant heat, permanent scarlet twilight, a swirling snowfall of ash, the stink of pain and the din of...if only, hell is two things: the absence of God and the presence of time. Infinite variations on that theme. Doesn't sound so bad, does it? Well, trust me.

Hell [...] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.

so far away. He lives in Vence, not in Jerusalem," she

No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.

No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down with every year of higher education. We've been studying our own absence.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

Stillness is the absence of motion. There's no space for time to fly and no time for space to be. In stillness space and time are point-less.

But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence'.

I didn't understand her being gone, either. I had seen her fall. Now her part of any conversation would always be unsaid, and the direction she would have gone walking would always be empty. Her absence extended in lines of numbers made of smoke, backward in memory and forward in futures never to occur.