Quotes About Absence

Mais la bataille qui se livrait en lui se lisait sur son visage. Et sa peur aussi. Pas seulement celle qu'il éprouvait pour moi et ce qui risquait de m'arriver à 4500 kilomètres de chez nous. Mais aussi la peur qu'il avait de moi. Sa peur de me perdre. Sa peur devant mon absence, de réduire en pièces son coeur mis à nu et vulnérable si je le décidais, comme un doberman déchiquetant un chaton.

time stretched and contracted depending on Tariq's absence or presence.

The wars had made fathers a rare commodity in Afghanistan.

With the passing of time, she'd tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to dust off, to resuscitate once again what was long dead. There would come a day when the details of his face would begin to slip from memory's grip. She would not miss him as much as she did now, when the ache of his absence was her unremitting companion.

Paul, careening down the slide with his arms out flung, and Phoebe, present somehow through her absence.

Oh I miss you Hetti Moore But there's no one here left to tell - The world has gone black before my eyes.

Kim Stanley Robinson

I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.

Min hjærne randt mig stille ut av hodet og gjorde mig tom.

I miss you. You don't know how much I miss you. You don't know how my heart sinks inside me when I think how far away you are. But then, maybe you know that feeling. I hope you do. No, I wouldn't wish that on you. But then, yes I would . . .. Forgive me for missing you that much.

Desde James Joyce, sabemos que a maior aventura de nossa vida é a ausência de aventuras.

There is an intense relationship between proximate objects, a much weaker one between objects further away, and as for the really distant ones there is none at all, and that is the nature of God.

I wonder where our legs have been while we've been gone? mused Cap'n Bill

When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

I don't want content. I want slight fear. Anxiety. I want a longing devotion for a twist of absence. The feeling of complete isn't quite pleasing.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don't really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn't really there. And the definition of a theologian is he's somebody who finds it.

And of all the rooms in my childhood, God was the largestand most empty.