Quotes About Absence

The absence of verifiable news provokes rumors

Who pities those who wait? They are easily recognized: by their gentleness, by their falsely attentive looks—attentive, yes, but to something other than what they are looking at—by their absentmindedness.

Quién se apiada del que espera? Se le reconoce fácilmente: por su mansedumbre, por su mirada atenta, pero, con una atención falsa, atentos a otra cosa que lo que están mirando: a la ausencia.

she lost herself in a delirious absence from herself which restored her to love and, perhaps, brought her to the edge of death.

I'm going away, he said. And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because.... Don't say anything, Fatima interrupted. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

You're not here anymore. You've got to leave in order to return to the present.

Cómo se mira algo que nunca más se va a ver? ¿Cómo se puede olvidar aquello que nunca se ha tenido?

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not

But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

another month. They would be back in the

do. And besides, he's going to be away at

She felt like she was leaving home, and had no idea when she'd be back again, if ever.

Desapareció -dijo Spade- como desaparece un puño cuando se abre la mano

Nerezza had no nose.

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. David Bowie

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they'd told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt's complete absence. They have forgotten.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.