Quotes About Absence

Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things." Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be shot.

There wasn't a trace of thrusters now.

It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

Then I am sorry I did not stay away longer I like being missed.

Being with you, and not being with you, is the only way I have to measure time. ~ BORGES ~

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.

not come to feel his own goodness, worth and lovableness because those significant persons in his life were not present to him with the full attention of their whole being.

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.

When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?

She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.

There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

If you dont know what life is—and you dont—then I'm not sure how you would characterize the absence of it.

Things will be better when everybody's gone. They will? Sure they will. Better for who? Everybody.

No one spoke. There was none to curse and none to pray, we just watched.

Where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?

Gusci di uomini senza fede che avanzavano barcollanti sul selciato come nomadi in una terra febbricitante. La rivelazione finale della fragilità di ogni cosa. Vecchie e spinose questioni si erano risolte in tenebre e nulla. L'ultimo esemplare di una data cosa si porta con sé la categoria. Spegne la luce e scompare. Guardati intorno. Mai è un sacco di tempo. Ma il bambino la sapeva lunga. E sapeva che mai è l'assenza di qualsiasi tempo.

Yeah. He aint here to say though, is he? I dont know. Someways I think he'll always have a say.

This is a dog. He is dead too. This

Le cose ci sono e poi non ci sono più. Credo che sentirne la mancanza vuol dire sperare che tornino. Ma le cose non tornano

The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion

Talih hiç de böyle bir ÅŸey olmayabilirdi. Karanl?kta yatm?? ölülere haset etmediÄŸi geceler nadirdi.

Die Toten können deine Liebe nicht erwidern.

Quién está? he said, but no one spoke back. There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.