Quotes About Absence

There will be no beautiful widow with Persian eyes sitting at your grave. And teary-eyed kids won't be asking: "Papa, papa, can you hear us?

Chip, she's gone, " and he said, "I thought I'd feel her looking down on us, but you're right. She's just gone

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.

Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.

The inclusion of dreams is the only viable supplement to the absence of more favourable outcomes.

Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go.

I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss.

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

I had taken time off from 'F.I.R.' for three months. But its makers didn't like my absence.

We never know what we're missing until we don't have it anymore.

Don't think of night as the absence of day; think of it as a kind of freedom. Turned away from our sun, we see the dawning of far flung galaxies. We are no longer sun blinded to the star coated universe we inhabit.

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

She's not coming back. No. He knew it was true. He had the feeling that the world might easily stop turning without the girl in it. Every hour was arduous, and when it was over, you had to start again with a new one, no better. He wondered how long he would be able to keep it going.

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need to, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

myself, I found that my thoughts had been rearranged in my absence.

When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.

The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it.

Or rather, I dreamed of her constantly, only as absence, not presence: a breeze blowing through a just-vacated house, her handwriting on a notepad, the smell of her perfume, streets in strange lost towns where I knew she'd been walking only a moment before but had just vanished, a shadow moving away against a sunstruck wall. Sometimes I spotted her in a crowd, or in a taxicab pulling away, and these glimpses of her I treasured despite the fact that I was never able to catch up with her.

WHEN I WAS A boy, after my mother died, I always tried hard to hold her in my mind as I was falling asleep so maybe I'd dream of her, only I never did. Or, rather, I dreamed of her constantly, only as absence, not presence: a breeze blowing through a just-vacated house, her handwriting on a notepad, the smell of her perfume, streets in strange lost towns where I knew she'd been walking only a moment before but had just vanished, a shadow moving away against a sunstruck wall.

In New York, everything reminded me of my mother—every taxi, every street corner, every cloud that passed over the sun—but out in this hot mineral emptiness, it was as if she had never existed; I could not even imagine her spirit looking down on me. All trace of her seemed burned away in the thin desert air.