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Quotes About Absence

When they answered the bell on that wild winter night. There was no one expected - and no one in sight.
~ Edward Gorey
God's already pissed off. He has been for five thousand years, and He's sick to the nucleus of His soul. He's not going to show Himself—you're not worth His time. God's gone. He's fuckin' busy, man.
~ Edward Lee
Robbins, with Dora and Louis on either side, did not speak. A storm came into his head and he missed a good part of the service.
~ Edward P. Jones
Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.
~ Edwidge Danticat
For those we don't see For those who are not here.
~ Edwidge Danticat
She hugged him, then kissed him. Then she was gone. He never saw her again.
~ Alastair Reynolds
L'église de tout à l'heure. Plus de tapis rouge. Ce soir, une vierge de moins.
~ Albert Cohen
God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
~ Albert Einstein
And, by the time Lady was brought back, cured, the puppy had begun to show the results of his sire's stern teachings. Indeed, Lady's absence was the best thing that could have befallen Wolf. For, otherwise, his training must needs have devolved upon the Mistress and the Master. And no mere humans could have done the job with such grimly gentle thoroughness as did Lad.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.
~ Alcibiades
irse, y no volver.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Your eyes begin in my eyes which no longer see you. Begin in my voice which no longer speaks to you. Die out in my hands which no longer touch you. Your eyes are inscribed in my flesh. No one can bear to see me now. Sinister tattoo. I do the rain, I do the sun. For want of your eyes in my eyes.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
you don't speak you no longer speak to yourself even the she in the mirror has disappeared
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Terribles rincones vacíos del cuarto! Cada uno se llena con la deseada presencia del ser amado. Rincones desnudos. Los dedos se retuercen en el aire tratando amorosamente de hallar Esos brazos, Esos ojos, Esa boca…Y ninguna magia activa su renombre. Todo es en vano. Nuevos deseos. Nuevas frustraciones. El nombre expirado por los labios no resucita en ningún rincón. ¡No! ¡Dios mío! ¡No!
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Tú no amas. Amas en vano, vanamente. Vanidad de enamorada que se vendió a la ausencia. Este amor te devora, tú misma ya no existes.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
No es posible renunciar a lo que no se tiene.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Return, while night clatters and mirrors open and everything tears inside because of your absence. Everything wants to get on with the wind, the sky. To register a terrible gesture, some way of being without you, an impossible.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Every word I write restores me to the absence of why I write what I wouldn't write if I allowed you to come here.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
And how many centuries has it been since I've been dead and loved you?
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
The abyss of absence. But who'll say: don't cry at night?
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
I wait until they finish up living without you at dawn without you
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
BUSCAR No es un verbo sino un vértigo. No indica acción. No quiere decir ir al encuentro de alguien sino yacer porque alguien no viene.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
No Las palabras no hacen el amor Hacen la ausencia Si digo agua ¿beberé? Si digo pan ¿comeré?
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
En aquel momento comprendí que iba a ser suya para siempre, aunque fuera de lejos, aunque él no volviera a verme nunca más.
~ Alejandro Casona