Quotes About Absence

Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too large a pleasure she could not endure. If pain was love, then she loved fiercely. Yet knew she could not be near that boy again.

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

The child is dead. There is nothing left to know.

I admire that a woman can do people like a man. You just get up one day and gone. No drums, no pigeons, no note, no word, no nothing.

We knew you were gone. We figured out it was something problematic. But mum was the word." According to Margie Pielsticker, "All of a sudden she was gone. We were told that she was at home, sick. No one knew why. Those were the years when you didn't talk about mental illness.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

La morte ha tante facce, è una presenza anche quando non lascia dietro di se un corpo inerte.

And my love follows you though the skyless night of the street, like the memory of a dog you once had that died.

I don't want to not see you again.

an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

But then an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

In Naked Lunch, the emperors not only have no clothes, they prance through the pages as simians and purple-assed baboons.

The fact that most of us experience throughout most of our lives a sense of absence or distance from God is the great illusion that we are caught up in; it is the human condition. The sense of separation from God is real, but the meeting of stillness reveals that this perceived separation does not have the last word.

Muzica a fost inventat? pentru a compensa absen?a ploii.

Gott wäre natürlich prima. Aber er könnte, wenn es ihn gäbe, nicht deutlicher sein, als er durch seine Abwesenheit ist. So ist er das Wort für alles, was mir fehlt.

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

It didn't dawn on me until you were gone just how much I would mis you. Sometimes I start to pick up the phone to see if you want to do something, and then I remember you're far away. Or I go somewhere we used to go, see people having fun, and wish we could be there, too, laughing and talking like they are. Don't get me wrong...I hope you're having a good time exploring new places and making new friends. I just miss you...I guess that's only natural when someone means as much to me as you.

Absence from the person you love is only healthy in theory.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.