Quotes About Absence

The house looked a tiny bit unfamiliar, as houses always do when their owners have ben away.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.

Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb. He really was there all those years, a flesh-and-blood presence streaming off the wallpaper, digging up the dogwoods, polishing the finials... smelling of sawdust and sweat and designer cologne. But I ached as if he were already gone.

I started thinking of my absentee diamond. My thumb and little finger kept reaching for their pet and sidekick.

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

It was the first time in years I didn't wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

Bex gave me a wink, and for a second I thought about Zach. I know this probably makes me the worst unofficial girlfriend ever, but it was kind of nice not having him there. It felt good to be just us girls again. It was nice to have the chance to miss him

death is the only thing that could have kept him from you

Para hacerme sentir que, con cada cuerpo que se desplomaba ante una tapia de ladrillos rojos, volvían a matarlos a todos, a matarnos con ellos, a quitarnos a todas un pedazo de vida en cada ausencia

Se levantó con brusquedad y se volvió para mirarme, y en aquel instante comprendí con una aterradora precisión que hasta entonces mi vida no había sido otra cosa que su ausencia.

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Aber eigentlich müsste ich inzwischen genug über Verluste wissen, um zu begreifen, dass man nie wirklich aufhört, jemanden zu vermissen - man lernt lediglich, mit dem riesigen, klaffenden Loch seiner Abwesenheit zu leben.

You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me is your absence, Alaric

As a result of the absence and weakness of black men, blacks have allowed every ungodly thing to influence their communities.

The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we'd 100% be getting divorced.

Planning my wedding and stuff, there's going to be reasons why people weren't there and nobody knows about why they're not going to be at my wedding.

My father cut the umbilical cord for my son, because I wasn't actually there.

I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

You think of what might have been different if dad had been around, or how I might have turned out as a person. You just don't know. I might not even be playing cricket.

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted - is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world.

Sometimes, taking a break and going somewhere else and, almost, for both parties, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.