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Quotes About Absence

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.
~ Mark Strand
Keeping Things Whole" In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.
~ Mark Strand
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
~ Mark Twain
I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
~ Mark Twain
Who is sitting in that empty chair?
~ Eugene Ormandy
It's funny, people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.
~ Ricky Williams
I parked in the tow-away zone, and when I got back, the entire neighborhood was gone.
~ Steven Wright
Um...Mercer? Haven't seen you in nearly a month. I was expecting something like, 'Oh Cross, love of my heart, fire of my loins, how I've longed--
~ Rachel Hawkins, Spell Bound
You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?
~ Jerry Spinelli
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.
~ Joko Beck
Some days can be cruel and some nights can be unkind when you're missing that one special person.
~ Unknown
Each time I see you I behave as if everything is going well without you in my life, but deep down my heart I know I'm missing you like crazy.
~ Unknown
I don't know where you are, but I miss you. I don't know what you're doing, but I'm thinking of you.
~ Unknown
Missing someone is one of the hardest thing in life specially when that someone is far from you ..
~ Unknown
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great
~ Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
I don't think you ever really do fall out of love with someone. You just get used to them not being around.
~ Anmol Andore
Sometimes you don't know how much you love a person until a long distance comes between you and them.
~ Terry Mark
I can go days without talking to you, weeks without kissing you, months without seeing you, but not a second goes by that I'm not thinking about you.
~ Unknown
Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to its own devices and creates you to be much more than reality would ever allow.
~ Unknown
The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of truth.
~ Anuj Somany
When you're gone, the pieces of my heart are missing you. When you're gone, the face I came to know is missing too. When you're gone, the words I need to hear to always get me through the day and make it okay. I miss you
~ Avril Lavigne