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Quotes About Absence

Seviyorum susman?, yokluk gibisin çünkü, sesim sana varmadan iÅŸitiyorsun beni.
~ Pablo Neruda
Ya me veo olvidado como estas viejas anclas. Son más tristes los muelles cuando atraca la tarde. Se fatiga mi vida inútilmente hambrienta. Amo lo que no tengo. Estás tú tan distante.
~ Pablo Neruda
Seviyorum susman?, yokluk gibisin çünkü. Öyle uzak, ac?l?, ölüp gitmiÅŸ gibi sen. Yeter o zaman bir söz, bir gülümseyiÅŸ bile. Sevinirim, baÅŸka ÅŸey yok öyle sevindiren.
~ Pablo Neruda
I'll send you a kiss with the wind And I know you'll hear it. You'll turn around without seeing me but I'll be there
~ Pablo Neruda
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.   To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.   And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.   What does it matter that my love could not keep her. The night is starry and she is not with me.
~ Pablo Neruda
M]otherlessness caused one of the great thirsts of the human condition.
~ Pat Conroy
The house was still as northern woods in winter, when all the creatures are gone.
~ Pat Frank
Yes, I have sunk a good deal since they took you from me.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Una nueva compulsión ardía en su interior. Era sencilla. Básica. Primaria. Encontrar a Vittoria. Sentía un inesperado vacío en su interior. A menudo había oído que una situación intensa podía unir a dos personas más que una convivencia de décadas. Ahora lo creía. En ausencia de Vittoria, sentía algo que no había sentido en años. Soledad. El dolor le daba fuerzas.
~ Dan Brown
and the thing that shocked her the most was how quickly such absences began to close. even after a few weeks, you could see how soon her parents would be forgotten, how their presence became an absence, and then...what? What did you call an absence that ceased to become an absence? what do you call a hole that has been filled in?
~ Dan Chaon
the professor talking about eigengrau—intrinsic gray, brain gray. It was the color you "saw" when light was totally absent, a kind of visual noise, like snow static on a television.
~ Dan Chaon
Nothing had ever been so welcome by its absence.
~ Dan Simmons
WHEREVER I AM, I AM WHAT IS MISSING.
~ Dani Shapiro
There are some secret moving Springs in the Affections, which when they are set a going by some Object in View, or be it some Object, tho' not in View, yet render'd present to the Mind by the Power of Imagination, that Motion carries out the Soul by its Impetuosity to such violent eager Embracings of the Object, that the Absence of it is insupportable.
~ Daniel Defoe
I'm sitting on the lumbering late bus, thinking about the way I'm going to start my Monday: by filling out an unexcused absence form for the cranky secretary. The last time the bus was late she actually told me, Don't tell me the bus was late. That excuse won't work anymore today. About ten kids ahead of you said that their bus was late, too. I tried to explain that we all took the same bus, but there was no pulling the wool over her eyes. She wasn't born yesterday.
~ Daniel Handler
You're a ghost! Eddie cried. You're empty and you have nothing inside you.
~ Daniel Handler
Foi por isso que a gente acabou, Ed, por uma coisinha pequena que sumiu ou quem sabe nunca tenha estado de verdade nas minhas mãos
~ Daniel Handler
If there is complete absence of delight, it only spells insentiency.
~ Daniel Odier
"Though some days would not allow us to meet, the memories we share are the best thing."
~ Unknown
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
~ James Howell
Missing someone and not being able to see them is the worst feeling ever.
~ Nathanael Richmond
Of all the things I miss the thing I miss the most is my mind.
~ Lotus Weinstock
My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead.
~ Wendell Berry