Quotes About Absence

I wish Hallmark made a Deadbeat Dad Christmas card.

Deadbeat dads are like magicians, they pull lifetime disappearing acts.

If every time I thought of you, a star fell, Well, the sky would be empty.

Me without you is like the moon without the stars, a kiss without lips, and a body without a heart. A world that doesn't spin, a sun that doesn't shine, a moon that doesn't glow, like life without a purpose, and a smile that never shows.

It's so boring when you're not here. It makes it dull in the atmosphere. I hate when you're not by my side. Oh I feel so left behind.

A day without you is like a year without wifi.

I can go days without talking to you, months without seeing you, but not a second goes by that I don't think about you.

Distance shouldn't stop me from loving you, instead it makes me love you and crave for you more.

When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.

Those awkward days when your best friend isn't at school and you feel like total loner.

The dead have a presence.

And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again.

And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to thy death bed: He will never come again.

The world didn't end with a whimper or a bang. Your life finished in complete silence. Gone in a blink. And then there was nothing.

Not how he died, not what he died of, even less why he died, are of concern, to me, only the fact that he did die, he is dead, is important: the loss to me, to us

And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?

I once feared death. It is said that death begins with the absence of life. And life begins when death is no longer feared. I have stared death in the eye and survived.

The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.

I miss you with the very edge of my skin.It winces in absence, a giant muscle contracting.

It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere...

This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.

More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.

You can't miss me, because I was never there.

I was dead, and I hadn't even been able to attend my own funeral.