Quotes About Absence

His trips home were handholds for her, so she could swing from one square on the calendar to the next. When he said he was going to come home and didn't, she swung forward and grasped thin air, fell.

God is dead, haven't you heard, he died a hundred years ago, gave out from sheer lack of interest, decided to play golf instead.

What isn't there is as important as what is, Phil always said.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss boxing, I miss the camaraderie.

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

A lot of my family weren't present when I was young, so I was getting a lot of stories told to me about them. Certain members of family had reputations because they were involved in crime and stuff like that. Then, when I was out on the streets, I'd be hearing more stories about them. So I think my whole upbringing was just heavily story-oriented.

Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

I don't have Steve. There is no having the Steve.

I live in New York, but I'm gone 310, 320 days a year. My apartment is storage.

I never knew my father. He'd disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea who he is. Perhaps strangely, it's never bothered me; I certainly don't believe it's really affected me.

Dan was hij niet boos, zoals je huis niet boos is als je met vakantie bent geweest.

Sometimes my tact takes a vacation. Tonight it must've gone to Kuwait or somewhere.

Since all of them overestimated the competition, no one even showed up.

Double collaboration was noticed by Jews and Poles in these places, but is absent in both Ukrainian and German histories of the war. —

In the politics of the every day, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.

wasn't anywhere near the

The universal is what particulars share not having.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

My parents got divorced when I was nine months old, and my father would only pop in and see me once a year, if that. I don't have much contact with him.

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.