Quotes About Absence

Sometimes we miss people, and it's beyond words.

or furniture I wanted to buy or even people I was attracted to (well, I'm referring to those things a little) but, rather, a sensation I can only describe as the ache of not being there

Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

Death is an endless retirement with a pension of nothingness.

No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!

There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

This is also what was meant when that loving soul said, "I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer." (Song of Solomon 5:6)

She misses him more now than when he was away

Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?

How can someone who made me look this happy no longer be in my life

Does she belong to you, Finnikin?" Yata asked, her eyes piercing. "No," he said after a moment. "But she belongs to my heart. I feel her absence strongly and it brings me . . . sorrow.

It's not that I miss my mother. It's just that I miss the idea of what one would be.

One day Tate was there, a ghost of Tate

But no one came back

Por que não escreveste nunca? Não é de te ler que mais tenho saudade. É o som da faca rasgando o envelope que trazia a tua carta. E sentir, de novo, uma caricia na alma, como se algures estivessem golpeando um cordão umbilical

After us, there was no more world to receive anyone.

A saudade é um morcego cego que falhou fruto e mordeu a noite.

Ahora puedo decírtelo. No es la muerte la que concede ausencia. El muerto aún está presente: todo el pasado le pertenece. La única manera de dejar de existir es la locura. Solo un loco está ausente.

Não é que seja infeliz. Eu não sou é feliz. E explica: a ausência dupla de felicidade e infelicidade é ainda mais penosa que o sofrimento. O verdadeiro castigo não é o inferno com as suas chamas devoradoras. A punição maior é o purgatório eterno.

Saudade de um tempo? Tenho saudade é de não haver tempo.

But there was so much that one had to pretend not to see the incredible clutter that threatened to overtake the entire flat save for those few narrow paths that the old man moved on; the acrid odor of dirt and neglect that pervaded the place and worked its way into your pores so that you carried it with you after you had left; his odd ways,born of living so long in an absence of mirrors.

We sometimes enjoy people's presence most when we register their absence.

We are starved for the unknown God. A few, like Stephen, will consume him in a sacrament. Others, like myself, are driven out into the waste places in search of his presence. That elusive presence that is neither here nor there but arrives, strangely, when we are becoming resigned to absence.