Quotes About Absence

It's about letting go. It might sound crazy, but it's a kind of acceptance. A being right there and a not being there.

All this has for me an indescribable charm, perhaps because I no longer see it, and because anything from which we are separated is pleasing to us.

And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there.

Yes, it isn't long since I purchased it," said Nozdrev. "How long?" "How long? Why, I purchased it three days ago, and gave a pretty sum for it, as the devil knows!" "Indeed? Why, three days ago you were at the fair?" "Wiseacre! Cannot one be at a fair and buy land at the same time? Yes, I WAS at the fair, and my steward bought the land in my absence.

Unos días después de su muerte un ujier del departamento se presentó en su casa para ordenarle que se reincorporara inmediatamente a su puesto de trabajo , pues así lo exigía el jefe. Pero no pudo cumplir su misión y a la vuelta declaró que Akaki Akákievich no aparecería más por allí. «¿Por qué?», le preguntaron. «Porque ha muerto —respondió—. Hace cuatro días que lo enterraron.»

The age of disappearing women. It had been going on forever. Thousands of us vanished, with not a single police officer searching. Not a word from the newspapers. Only our long absences and quiet returns. If we ever returned at all.

My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.

Nothing meaning the absence of tangible threats—no gun to her head, no knife to her throat—and yet what is poverty if not a threat? What is being called that word or followed down the street by packs of boys if not a threat?

Yet part of her life seemed gone, a voice of love from the other end of a telephone was missing.

Wanting so mostly rarely withstands the presence of the thing we want. Say why.

Al??kanl?ktan ba?ka bir ?ey bilmedikleri için, sizin de yoklu?unuza al??acaklard?r.

?wiat móg? powsta? tylko dlatego, ?e Bóg go opu?ci?. Najpierw by?o co?, a potem tego zabrak?o. To jest ?wiat. ?wiat ca?y jest brakiem.

Sometimes I can't sleep because I miss you all so much. And sometimes I don't think about you at all.

Additional senses will appear: the feeling of lack, the taste of absence, the ability for particular precognition. Knowing what won't happen. Being able to smell what doesn't exist.

Whenever I set off on any sort of journey I fall off the radar. No one knows where I am.

This night of no moonThere is no way to meet him.I rise in longing—My breast pounds, a leaping flame,My heart is consumed in fire.

Though we knew each other without overlapping our clothes, still, with this autumn wind's sound, I find myself waiting for you.

La vita non è fatta solo di doveri, di nobili sogni. È fatta anche di piaceri. E il solo compenso per l'assenza di certi piaceri è illuderci d'avere una missione.

Properly speaking, there are no barbarian standards. Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. The varying degrees of culture are measured by the greater or less precision of the standards. Where there is little such precision, these standards rule existence only grosso modo; where there is much they penetrate in detail into the exercise of all the activities.

they have become notable features of the heart of modern darkness: no givens, no rules and no limits.

I missed my older sister, or people I used to be friends with, or people I hadn't seen in a long time. I cannot stand mornings because it seems I am always bleakly reminded of long-gone times, and people I used to know, and their presences feel eerily close, like the scent of pickled radish that you just can't get rid of.

A word does not suppress This dryness spreading through, Dense air is emptiness For me without you.

It is a bizarre, but nevertheless psychologically exact, fact that the physics of the Greeks — being statics and not dynamics — neither knew the use nor felt the absence of the time-element, whereas we on the other hand work in thousandths of a second.

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