Quotes About Absence

Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our lives. A crucial part of our story is gone, and violently, like a bomb in the womb

Death is a continuation of my life without me...

Nothingness haunts Being.

We have so much difficulty imagining nothingness.

Nothingness carries being in its heart.

Tuesday: Nothing. Existed.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Suddenly they existed, then suddenly they existed no longer: existence is without memory; of the vanished it retains nothing—not even a memory. Existence everywhere, infinitely, in excess, for ever and everywhere; existence—which is limited only by existence.

I wanted to be missed, like water, like bread, like air, by all other people in all other places.

black, like the circle, did not exist.

I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.

If you don't appear at all one day they think you're lazy or dead.

It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.

He and I don't know each other like that. We know each other as strictly basketball. A lot of people on the outside don't understand that because people think we have a relationship like every other father and son. We just don't. That's because he's been gone my whole life, and that's fine.

With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture.

Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum.

It's not a struggle, but sometimes when you're gone for a month or two, you start to miss your friends. I love acting so much that it fills that gap of being sad about not being able to see my friends.

I did not have a black coat to wear to the Oscars. It was a mandatory dress code, that was the reason I gave it a miss.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.