Quotes About Absence

Present, I flee you: absent, I find you again.

Presente, huyes: ausente, te encuentro otra vez.

The only thing I'm sure of is that one can't be a complete unbeliever. That would be to admit to nothingness. Absolute zero doesn't exist.

Even if the law still existed, there wasn't going to be anyone around to enforce it.

I hate the moonlight because it's beautiful and he isn't here to see it with me.

The news took a moment to sink in, probably because there was no bottom for it to alight upon.

When she thinks of this, she feels as tatty as a scrap of lace, defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing.

she feels as tatty as a scrap of lace, defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing.

The absolute absence of him feels like unmitigated terror.

defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing

what's left is only the beloved, familiar shape of him, empty of breath.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

Tommy was nowhere in sight, and though she waited for a few minutes, he didn't reappear.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

Even heaven is hell without you.

How did I know it had happened? Because of its absence now, because I still felt the loss of it, but I didn't know how to convey that to Borne then, because he had never lost anything. Not back then. He just kept accumulating, sampling, tasting. He kept gaining parts of the world, while I kept losing them.

A quell'epoca, io stavo cercando l'oblio, e cercavo in quei volti assenti, anonimi, anche nei più penosamente familiari, una specie di innocua fuga. Una morte che non significasse essere morti.

You can tell about people by their absences. By the shape of the emptiness they leave behind.

Llevada por Francisco Rosas, Julia salió del atrio, sin oír

The dead have no place down here. They must leave us in peace.

It is an admission of conflict and separation; these God creates and destroys, by His presence as much by His absence. All is possible with Him; nothing is possible without Him. But the opposite is equally true. Never forget what the ancient taught us: God exists in contradictions, too. He is the limit of all things, and He is what extends the limit.

every shut eye ain't asleep, every goodbye ain't gone.

There were times when she looked up from her labors to ask her mother a question - looking over to the chair where Beatrix had always sat - and was startled by the nothingness to be found there. It was like looking at a spot on a wall where a clock had hung for years, and seeing only an empty space. She could not train herself not to look; the emptiness surprised her every time.

It was like looking at a spot on a wall where a clock had hung for years, and seeing only an empty space. She could not train herself not to look; the emptiness surprised her every time.