Quotes About Absence

No, she's in Spain, too, they're all in Spain, there's no one here... Am I in Spain? No, I'm not in Spain, dear, I'm in agony. That's where I am.

a long time ago. His father often met him on trips out here, but not this year. Cancer made sure of that. The last thing he ever told Bishop was that Bishop was

Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fated or written in our DNA or forced upon us by shitty parents or careless teachers or cruel friendships. Evil is not a state; it is a "property," and when a person is in possession of enough "property," it sometimes begins to define them.

The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn't really there. And the definition of a theologian is he's somebody who finds it.

what if it was precisely the absence of intent and, instead, the swings of irrationality and mania that managed, even as his government collapsed, to hold so many people in thrall?

The feeling of closeness when we talked on the phone was too violent, and the void that came afterward too cruel.

Chacun d'entre nous a beau avoir une certaine capacité de résistance on finit tous par mourir d'amour, ou plutôt d'absence d'amour, c'est au bout du compte inéluctablement mortel.

We turn our eyes to the heavens, and the heavens are empty.

Je m'adresse à tous ceux qu'on n'a jamais aimés, Qui n'ont jamais su plaire; Je m'adresse aux absents du sexe libéré, Du plaisir ordinaire. Ne craignez rien, amis, votre perte est minime : Nul part l'amour n'existe. C'est juste un jeu cruel dont vous êtes les victimes; Un jeu de spécialistes.

Cuando desaparece la sexualidad, lo que aparece es el cuerpo del otro, con su presencia vagamente hostil; los ruidos, los movimientos, los olores; y la presencia misma de ese cuerpo que ya no podemos tocar, ni santificar mediante el contacto, se convierte poco a poco en algo incómodo; desgraciadamente, nada de esto es nuevo.

perhaps the most objective knowledge we have is of the primacy of pleasure—the absence of pain—as the motivating force behind our own and others' actions.

Dad was a big part of my hockey, that's for sure. He really wanted to see me succeed. He helped pay for me to play even when money was tight. Having him totally gone was going to be weird.

the father figure was perhaps physically, and definitely emotionally, absent when the boy was in his latency phase. As a boy, therefore, the serial killer had no positive father figure with whom to identify.

En un home de fusta em converteixo per vell i per mesell i solitari. Tot m'és sobrer fora de tu que em manques i tot m'emplena tanmateix de vida. No moriré de mort fantasiosa, sinó d'una absurda i lenta malaltia que em podrirà com us podriu vosaltres.

ESCRIC DE TU Escric de tu i de mi per recordar-te. La tarda em pesa suaument als muscles i dibuixa l'espai en què et retrobo sense tenir-te. Tota l'esperança se'm fa desig intens a la mirada i l'ombra de tu pels marges solitaris. Escric de tu i de mi, des d'aquest angle de tarda que ens pertany perquè vam fer-ne l'àmbit fecund i clar dels nostres somnis.

Potser si torno de puntetes m'acollirà la mateixa divagatòria complaença que enyorava, i no hauré de retre comptes d'una tan llarga absència. Pugnen els versos per obrir-se pas entre la fronda de vells moviments obscurs i contumaços, però l'ordre restablert amb esforç és una melodia que ja puc repetir amb dits insegurs només tancant els ulls.

Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.

She was a very beautiful person who was missing something very ugly. Her winnings were the absence of something, and this quality hung around her.

All happiness has vanished

Following the death of his wife, Sam Johnson wrote to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Warton, "I have ever since seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wilds of life, without any certain direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on a world to which I have little relation." But my wife wasn't dead, merely absent.

A person doesn't have to be here to love you.

If I ever become a Saint I surely be one of "darkness". I will continually be absent from Heaven to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

Fear is the absence of reasoning.

Heaven is filled with only unimaginable pleasures and promises the absence of miseries.