Quotes About Absence

The minute she left the apartment, I missed having her there. But as with all loves, I supposed, the consolation was in the fact that she'd be back.

This is what a memorial is: Standing still, staring at something that isn't there.

It is still strange to see the skyline. I have never seen an absence that's so physical. It's possible I will see the absence for the rest of my life, even when there is something else there. Which is ok. The thing to remember when looking at an absence is that you are standing outside of it.

Because toward the end all the words started leaving. Except for the ones that had to lock up at the end of the night.

But empty-with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole.

The smell of the nail polish made me think of Amber and the rest of my friends. I missed them, but in theory. It wasn't them I missed, but friendship. QUITE YET.

It is a terrible thing to not feel missed.

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present. Her absence was palpable, even though she was still in the room.

She was pretty, though. Like a flower. I missed that.

I still sing him songs before I am ready, sing him back the moments he has missed. as if to say, this is where I was when you couldn't find me.

It's a terrible thing to not feel missed.

In sum, the empirical status of the father-absent hypothesis is mixed and points to the possibility of gene x environment interactions in predicting the effects of father absence on female sexual development.

Perhaps I have not mentioned the tennis courts.

but it's been my observation that justice is conspicuous by its absence when it comes to politics and entrenched, self-serving regimes.

They never look very big on the table, the bodies. It's built to accommodate the largest frames, there's that. And they're naked. But it's something else. That parcel of the being called the soul-weighing twenty-one grams, according to the experiments of the American doctor Duncan MacDougall-takes up a surprising amount of space, like aloud voice. In its absence, the body seems to shrink

I feel sad that he's just a voice now.

She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.

Some of dese mornin's and it won't be long, you gointuh wake up callin' me and Ah'll be gone.

The wind through the open windows had broomed out all the fetid feeling of absence and nothingness.

Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.