Quotes About Absence

I turned, painting in hand, to show it to her, and then realized she wasn't there. Or - she was there and she wasn't. Part of her was there, but it was invisible. The invisible part was the important part. This was something I hadn't understood before.

It kept being a shock every time I remembered it, a fresh slap: she was gone.

for the first time I realized how lonely the next two months would really be, with the school closed, the snow deep, everyone gone.

Bethlehem star. But we were not

The reality hits hard when one wants to pick up the phone to share some experience only to remember that the loved one is not at the other end.

Never having something is different than having something and losing it.

And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there.

Tõestuse puudumine ei ole puudumise tõestus.

My witness is the empty sky.

Afscheid nemen van een geest is definitiever dan afscheid nemen van een geliefde. Zelfs de doden keren weer, maar een geest die, eens bemind, weggaat, keert nooit meer weer.

He woke in the dimity light of dusk to owl song and found her gone. Far across the valley the keen, yearning song of a solitary vixen called to his blood. The world turned.

She asked him, What is the scent of snow? He replied, Soft, cold, blue. And she asked of blue could be a scent. He answered, Moss, tundra, clean earth and lichen. The scent of snow is calm, An absence of scent that illuminates, so that any warm life smells so rich.

Everyone else has gone away. And now coming back home isn't really coming back home at all.

my eyes fill up with the missing of everything and everyone I've ever known.

Everyone else has gone away. And now coming back home isn't really coming back home at all.

When you're young and your mother leaves, something inside of you fills up with the absence of her. I don't know how to explain. For a long time, there was this place inside of me where love for Marion should have been but wasn't.

Man finds his home in a point situated in the Other beyond the image of which we are made and this place represents the absence where we are.

Necesito una realidad, una vigencia, a ti, presente, cercana, para decir te quiero. Mi corazón se nutre de mis ojos, de mis manos, de todo lo que miro y toco. La ausencia es un engaño

some abusers are rarely home at all, using the house only as a base for periodic refueling.

That fall, after the summer when they both died, she and my father, there was a point when I wanted to say to them, All right, you have died, I know that, and you've been dead for a while, we have all absorbed this and we've explored the feelings we had at first, in reaction to it, surprising feelings, some of them, and the feelings we're having now that a few months have gone by--- but now it's time for you to come back. You have been away long enough.

Madison was also developing another idea: that the absence of clashing ideas and competing interests leads to overreaching and corruption.

And the gaping hole left behind is in some ways worse than death. If their absence was caused by death, you would grieve their loss. But when their absence is caused by rejection, you not only grieve their loss but you also have to wrestle through the fact that they wanted this.

God is good at being God. I don't have to figure my present circumstances out. I don't have to fill the silence left behind in another person's absence. I don't have to know all the whys and what-ifs. All I have to do is trust.

You know who you should ask about this? My pal Ray, who works with me. He could tell you all about this." Lily's dad nodded. "Except he was taken out of the office a few days ago with his hands tied behind his back and a bandanna tied as a gag on his mouth." Her father thought for a second. "Huh. He hasn't been in to work since. I wonder if he has the flu.