Quotes About Absence

At Christmas homes were full of the people there and people not there.

Watching TV Mum said, 'Do you miss your dad?' and I said, 'Who?

How empty seems the town now you are gone! A wilderness of sad streets, where gaunt walls Hide nothing to desire.

Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

It's amazing how easily someone can leave your life. It's standing on a beach and stepping back to see the hole of your footprint subsumed by the sand and the sea as if it were never there. Grief, it turns out, is a lot like a one-sided video conversation on an iPad. It's the call with no response, the echo of affection, the shadow cast by love. But just because you can't see it anymore doesn't make it any less real.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

Sometimes you can't tell how consuming love is until you can see its absence. Sometimes you can't recognize love because it's changed you, like a chimera, so slowly that you didn't witness the transformation.

Sometimes you can't tell how consuming love is until you can see its absence

I don't know why, when it comes to death, we say we lost someone. They're not missing or misplaced. They're whisked away from the tightest embrace.

It just goes to show you: you can put nine thousand miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

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

My father died last year," Thomas said. "I still look for him in crowds.

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

Sometimes you can't tell how consuming love is until you can see its absence.

When the life left a person, it wasn't by degrees. It was instant, like someone pulling down a shade on a window. The

Nobody's birthday.

if the only love you had ever known was conditional, so was the absence of it.

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

Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

I had a sudden image of myself as a sort of large dark simian something slumped there at the table, or not a something but a nothing, rather, a hole in the room, a palpable absence, a darkness visible.

The high ones die, die. They die. You look up and who's there?

Where trust is absent, leadership falters.

So . . . suddenly there were no tapes of The 1948 Show. It was no more. It was an ex-series.

As soon as I accept that you're gone, you're back.