Quotes About Absence

A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

The dead are more faithful than the living. For better or worse, they do not leave you. They last out the longest night.

Every absent day he loses advantage. If kings do not see you they forget you. Even though nothing in the realm is done without you, kings think they do it all themselves.

He prayed for her, and she prayed for him. One needs to pray, in a world without a god.

There are times when my father's absence is as heavy as a child sitting on my chest.

There has not been a day since his sudden and mysterious vanishing that I have not been searching for him, looking in the most unlikely places. Everything and everyone, existence itself, has become an evocation, a possibility for resemblance. Perhaps this is what is meant by that brief and now almost archaic word: elegy

Det fattades bara, det fattades bara att jag skulle gå genom livet utan att nånsin ha varit din.

Being hated is not something new to me My name was once on the noise makers list When I was absent from school

I hope Cardan misses me.

Jude, Since I cannot imagine there is much in the human lands to interest you, I can only suppose your continued absence in Elfhame is due to me. I urge you: come be angry at a nearer distance. Cardan.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones.

La ausencia aminora las pequeñas pasiones y agranda las grandes.

loved him and he's dead and gone and bones. I loved him and they took him away from me. Where is he? Where is he? Dead and gone and

Since I cannot imagine there is much in the human lands to interest you, I can only suppose your continued absence in Elfhame is due to me. I urge you. Come be angry at a nearer distance.

Mom didn't move. Mom and Dad were dead. They were never going to move again.

He continues looking at me in this strange way, as though he's never seen me before or as though he thought he'd never see me again.

Things will be easier without me around. They'll see that." "They won't," I told him, trying to ignore the intense surge of envy that came with knowing he would be missed.

But when you were gone-truly gone beneath the waves-I hated myself as I never have before.

Jude, Since I cannot imagine there is much in the human lands to interest you, I can only suppose your continued absence in Elfhame is due to me. I urge you. Come be angry at a nearer distance.

Boredom is a finicky creature, never around when you need it, and always popping up when you want it the least.

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

Perry was away often. He sometimes felt like an aberration in her life. A visitor. Her real life took place when he wasn't there. What happened never mattered all that much because he was always about to leave, the next day or the next week.

There were breakfasts when Nick was away for work. She ate her toast in bed when he was away, relishing the romantic pain of missing him, as if he were a sailor or soldier. It was like enjoying feeling hungry when you knew you'd be having a huge dinner.

Was Savannah another sibling? Why wasn't she here today? Was she the family outcast? The prodigal daughter? Is that why her name seemed to land between them with such portentousness? And had anyone called her?