Quotes About Absence

This is the house where the dead lived. It is gone, lost and gone.

She wanted to disappear. Well, that's not quite right. She wanted not to have ever been here in the first place.

when you close your eyes do I go away? Do you?

She was gone. And his heart was beating too loud and too fast. Into nothingness.

I woke up and knew he was gone. Straightaway I knew he was gone. When you love somebody you know these things. David Almond, Skellig

How could it be true that [he] was dead, and how would it feel to have him dead in her heart forever?

She was beginning to miss him when he wasn't near.

Losing people and missing them — that's what your life consists of.

Sometimes, Jake, disappeared is worse than dead. With dead, at least there's an end.

It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.

What does the breathtaking view of the ocean mean without you?

Mark Twain say something about courage being the mastery of fear rather than the absence of fear?

there is a way of leaving and yet of not leaving; of hinting that one loves and is willing to return, yet never coming back and so preserving a relationship in a lingering decay.

There's so much of you here with me, really, it's a pity you aren't all here.

There's so much of you here with me, really, that it's a pity you aren't all here.

He gazed at the book in his hand, did not see it for some moments, thinking of her, then saw it again.

If no one is home, then someone is missing. So you grieve.

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?

The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors… . The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor… . How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

The cult of remembrance of loved ones, absent or dead, offers a last refuge for the cult value of the picture.

When there hasn't been anything there, nothing can be said to have vanished from the place where it has not been. (Out Of The Deep)

Durante la ausencia de Shockley y Brattain, la guerra transformó los Laboratorios Bell, que entraron a formar parte del triángulo integrado por el gobierno, las universidades de investigación y el sector privado.

I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that contemplating their absence feels as strange as imagining having never been born yourself.

But at night we began dreaming of Man's perfect world without humanity (57)