Quotes About Absence

Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been engaged in a low wattage war someplace.

Like many people who come to New York to live and then have to leave before they really want to, I spent the next three or four years with the vague feeling that there was a great party going on somewhere and I was not at it.

The door closed, and he was gone into the twilight of early evening like an afterthought.

When someone dies, it doesn't leave a hole, and that's the agony.

Me miró supe que me hacía falta. Tanto tiempo me hacía falta.

But it was long before then that I realized that my mother was no longer there. That she had died with my father. I was a little girl being raised by spirits. In

People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn't, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been.

disappearance, Kyle knew he had

the absence of activity in her life is matched by the phenomenal activity of her intellect

Yeah, but 'beyond reach' means you want to reach something. It's more than far away; there's an absence. Missing something you can't have.

Why doesn't momma come back?

Farewell Piorewiczowna, unasked for shadow I don't even remember your first name.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once.

We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted fish. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he'd be gone for three months. That was just the way it is.

When you grow up without something, the lack of it is always with you. Even when you finally have it." Helen

How long will you be away?" "Three days," he said cheerfully. "You'll scarcely have time to miss me before I'm back." "I wouldn't miss you no matter how long you were gone.

A sad statement of a man's life, that the world should have been so improved by his absence.

only person I have left in this world is also missing. Gio

news guts me out like a fish. I'm empty inside. My mama's gone from this world? She's gone from this world, and I'll never get to see her again?

Every time you mourn for me, I'll be far away. But when you celebrate, I'll be right there with you, dancing.

Now in the thriving season of love when the bud relents into flower, your love turned absence has turned once more, and if my comforts fall soft as rain on her flutters, it is because love grows by what it remembers of love

Today I bring you cold chrysanthemums, white as absence, long-stemmed as my grief. I stand before your grave, a few unfallen leaves overhead, the sucking mud beneath.