Quotes About Absence

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty," Philippe Ariès wrote to the point of this aversion in Western Attitudes toward Death. "But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.

Yet on each occasion these pleas for his presence served to reinforce my awareness of the final silence that separated us.

Visible mourning reminds us of death, which is construed as unnatural, a failure to manage the situation. A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty, Philippe Aries wrote to the point of this aversion in Western Attitudes toward Death. But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.

A single person is missing for you and the whole world is empty.

It's all gone with you, he said. It used to be there but it's gone. Listen, she said as if by rote. I love you.

No hi ha res que pesi tant com el buit.

If you have reasons for not coming back, I don't want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway. Ignorance, see?

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there.

You can miss a person you've never known.

simply-quotes Follow I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

There is something bleak and barren about a world that is missing the person who knows you best.

My life sucks when you're not in it.

Give the gift of absence to those who do no appreciate your presence.

I feel really weird at the moment...Like something's missing. I haven't seen my friends in like ages!

I think of all the times we're together as a group of friends and I can't help but realize that somethings missing...

Whenever I miss you, I look at my heart. Because it's the only place I can find you.

The only pain which you cant feel is in your absence, so please never go away.

It's a sad Christmas this year because of the absence of peace in the city or peace and joy.

Noo the candy box from last Christmas is empty.