Quotes About Absence

The world is gone, I have to carry you.

Esta tarde ví llover, Vi gente correr, y no estabas tu.

I love my job when I'm not there.

When dad is absent," she explained, "it basically provides young girls with a cue about what the future holds in terms of the mating system they are born into.

When we're lonely, most of us can soothe ourselves by remembering the love that others have for us. This can be very comforting, even if these people are far away—sometimes even if they're no longer living. This ability to hold others close, even in their physical absence, is called object constancy.

the universe is a flaw in the purity of non-being.

You on the train and me here and everything emptier now you're gone. Tell me, are you real?

I don't know how to describe it, but after the blush of my own company wore off, I became so aware of Earnest's absence it was as if the lack of him had moved into the apartment with me.

I've been looking for you everywhere," he said, taking my arm. Without

Her absence was still so loud and so heavy, I ached with it, feeling hollow and lost. I didn't know how to forget my mother any more than my father knew how he might comfort me.

To say that from the moment her lover had left, O began to await his return would be an understatement. She turned into pure vigil, darkness in waiting expectation of light.

Horton could tell instantly there was no one in the house, dead or alive. Death left a place much colder than this, you could smell it, taste it, and sense it. It crept up your flesh, quickened your breath, and sent your pulse racing to cope with the first shock of meeting it. But this house was empty, just a shell.

I know the answer now, and that knowledge absolutely coexists with a terrible longing for the mother love I never had and never will have.

Leaving something unnamed makes it quite literally unspeakable: a void, an absence, a taboo.

My love for you won't stop with my leaving. Come an evening over the years, when you step outside your door and hear the wind blowing through the cottonwoods, that'll be me, thinking of you, whispering your name, and loving you.

your absence, but with my cousin in such very poor health still, I feel I cannot leave her, so…' The old

The contrast between a patient depressed and a patient recovered is the contrast between absence and presence.

Christians today have more in common with the Israelites wandering through a lonely and threatening desert or exiled to a hostile land than with Paul and most other New Testament writers. The Old Testament doesn't speak in the booming voice of imminent triumph. It speaks of generation after generation of the faithful and not so faithful, of successes and failures, of God's presence and God's absence.

Doubt tears down the castle walls we have built, with the false security and permanence they give, and forces us outside to walk a lonely, trying, yet cleansing road. In those times, it definitely feels like God is against us, far away, or absent altogether. But what if the darkness is actually a moment of God's presence that seems like absence, a gift of God

Her presence enables my absence.

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

Jasper's weight on my leg an aching absence.

It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.

For when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.