Quotes About Absence

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

I can't imagine any greater fear Than waking up without you here And though the sun would still shine on My whole world would all be gone

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

Anyone who has lost a loved one knows that you don't recover. Instead, you learn to incorporate their absence and memories into your life and channel your emotional energy toward others, and eventually, your grief will walk beside you instead of consuming you.

The best feeling in the world is knowing your presence and absence both mean something to someone.

When Our Absence Does Not Change Someones Life.., Then Accept The Reality That Our Presence Has No Meaning In Their Life.

Give the gift of your absence to those who do not appreciate your presence .

Life is too ironic. It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, & absence to value presence.

Don't strive to make your presence noticed, live to make your absence felt...

There are moments in your life when you really miss someone that you want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real. Hope you dream of that someone.

I'm afraid the only day you'll care about me is when I'm not around to hear you say it

Life is so ironic, it takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence & absence to value presence.

When you need me, I'm always there. Now I need you, and you're not around!

Forgive me for not being there, my mind has found a place called else where.

The only thing my dad taught me, was how to survive and that was by him not being there. A man made me, mummy raised me.

Let them miss you. Sometimes when you're always available, they take you for granted because they think you'll always stay.

But the absence of one part from a whole is not only that, it is not simply a partial lack, it is a derangement of all the other parts, a new state which it was impossible to foresee in the old.

I asked myself whether marriage with Albertine would not spoil my life, as well by making me assume the burden, too heavy for my shoulders, of consecrating myself to another person, as by forcing me to live in absence from myself because of her continual presence and depriving me, forever, of the delights of solitude.

Like all those who enjoy the possession of a thing, in order to know what would happen if he ceased for a moment to possess it he had removed that thing from his mind, leaving everything else in the same state as when it was there. But the absence of a thing is not merely that, it is not simply a partial lack, it is a disruption of everything else, it is a new state which one cannot foresee in the old.

But the intensity of her mimicry could not fill the place of that light which is absent from our eyes so long as we do not understand what people are talking to us about.

They knew the address. They went to the house. They did not see its mistress. But at dinner that evening she would say: "I hear they've

The hierophant was not even conscious of my absence. When he heard of it, he was distressed: "What, you didn't see me carving the turkeys myself?" I replied that having failed, so far, to see Rome, Venice, Siena, the Prado, the Dresden gallery, the Indies, Sarah in Phèdre, I had learned to resign myself, and that I would add his carving of turkeys to my list.

To a person who loves, is not absence the most certain, the most effective, the most durable, the most indestructible, the most faithful of presences?