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Quotes About Absence

The Face we choose to miss, Be it but for a day – As absent as a hundred years When it has rode away.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1855
I miss you always and every day But when I search my heart for you I find that you never went away
~ Terri Guillemets
A photograph gives relief to the banished and absent lover.
~ James Iredell
I am so very absent. The world is overcrowded with my absence. Life is where I am not. No matter where I am…
~ Gospodinov Georgi
But he's a missing person nobody's going to miss much.
~ Graham McNamee
It true, Bigfoot career been in hole lately. Bigfoot mania of the '70's and '80's but distant memory. I famous for ability to not be see but don't think I not notice you not notice. I blame music television and internet. People too lazy and stupid to appreciate conceptual artist like Bigfoot who appeal is absence.
~ Graham Roumieu
L'amour a épousé l'absence, un soir d'été;
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Voici le gage de mon amour De nos fiançailles Ni le temps ni l'absence Ne nous feront oublier nos promesses Et un jour nous aurons une belle noce Des touffes de myrte A nos vêtements et dans vos cheveux Un beau sermon à l'église De longs discours après le banquet Et de la musique De la musique
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Jusqu'où faut-il s'enfuir pour guérir une absence? Jusqu'où faut-il s'enfuir pour échapper à sa douleur, à son ombre, à sa vie?
~ Guillaume Musso
Dicen que en Lima el cielo es permanentemente gris, mas nunca llueve. Así rememoro los días al lado de mamá, encapotados, neblinosos, sin relámpagos, sin vendavales.
~ Guillermo Arriaga
for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.
~ Guillermo del Toro
An absence of fear, Elisa realizes, can be mistaken for happiness, but it isn't the same thing. Not even close.
~ Guillermo del Toro
En ausencia de la luz prevalece la oscuridad
~ Guillermo del Toro
En el Distrito Federal nadie extraña a nadie, todos desean la ausencia del otro, su desaparición repentina, se sueltan algunas lágrimas a causa de las pérdidas y después viene la felicidad.
~ Guillermo Fadanelli
Dharma is easiest to spot by its absence: the Mahabharata employs the pedagogical technique of teaching about dharma via its opposite, adharma
~ Gurcharan Das
Anyone's death always releases something like an aura of stupefaction, so difficult is it to grasp this irruption of nothingness and to believe that it has actually taken place.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Just as the absence of clouds does not mean the end of the sky, neither is an empty mind the end of knowing.
~ Guy Finley
perhaps within me the desire to put off that which I most in the world desire of late keeps watch, I mean, to write a book but a wounded book, a contentious, broken book, a book not pleased to be a book, to be only a book, to be born in the absence of my friend, a book incapable of acting as if the last times were not upon us, but which at the same time cannot act as if it were only a book hence a being unaware of the end, unaware what time it is.
~ Helene Cixous
sometimes I wait for you at the exact edge of the jetty where we left each other. Sometimes I disappear into an unconscious hole and lie there silted up in stories having nothing to do with the vigorous immediacy of our epic.
~ Helene Cixous
After that first crowded day I retired to one of those green-tiled sanctuaries and lathered myself with a new bar of a famous toilet soap which Helen had put in my bag. I have never been able to use that soap since. Scents are too evocative and the merest whiff jerks me back to that first night away from my wife, and to the feeling I had then. It was a dull, empty ache which never really went away.
~ James Herriot
you're certain, then, that no human affection can outlast a five-year absence?" "It can, undoubtedly," replied the Chinese, "but only as a fragrance whose melancholy we may enjoy.
~ James Hilton
I won't make Love, I will love the empty place where love should be.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
It's so beautiful when love comes from a place of absence.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Will you no come back again? Better loved you'll never be, And will you no come back again?
~ James Hogg