Quotes About Absence

The days will have more hours while you are gone away.

And somebody has lost the face That made existence home!

After you went, a low wind warbled through the house like a spacious bird, making it high but lonely. When you had gone the love came. I supposed it would. The supper of the heart is when the guest has gone.

Long Years apart—can make no Long Years apart—can make no Breach a second cannot fill— The absence of the Witch does not Invalidate the spell— The embers of a Thousand Years Uncovered by the Hand That fondled them when they were Fire Will stir and understand—

The dying need but little, dear, —    A glass of water's all, A flower's unobtrusive face    To punctuate the wall, A fan, perhaps, a friend's regret,    And certainly that one No color in the rainbow    Perceives when you are gone.

The supper of the heart is when the guest has gone. - Letters 1857 to Dr and Mrs Holland pg 171

O inferno é a ausência das pessoas de quem temos saudade.

I felt as though i were being shown a photo of someone well loved, and long dead. I didn't want to be reminded of what I no longer seemed to have.

real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere...

He supposed it was always that way with the dead, they slid away before we knew enough to ask them the right questions.

She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.

it was always that way with the dead; they slid away before we knew enough to ask them the right questions. All we could do was remember them, as much as we could remember them, whether it was accurate or not.

In her absence I cleaned the dead woman, working gently, as if Ita Noonan could still feel everything.

You guys looking for my dad? People are always, like, looking for him, and he's never around. Daddy is so not here. And I mean that literally and spiritually.

We lost the crickets.

Miss me? Bet you did ... so would I.

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

Bea did not want a new mother. She'd hardly even seen the one she once had, except for glimpses out the window when her mother was climbing into a carriage to go off to a party. She'd been as beautiful as an angel, all sparkling and laughing in her lovely gowns, but not much use.

It was dark inside that box. Not the blackness of night, but a complete absence of light.

il est des relations d'amour qui fonctionnent ainsi, sur le mode du manque et de l'éloignement. Tant qu'on est ailleurs, on peut maudire la séparation et vivre dans l'idée qu'il suffirait de se rejoindre. Une fois sur place, les yeux se dessillent : la distance préservait encore l'amour, si l'on abolit la distance on prend le risque d'abolir l'amour. »

She suffered from the opposite of "phantom limb" syndrome; something essential appeared to be present, but it was not.

Wishin'   you were here don't place you in the old wing chair. Face you   in the photos, china, art on parlor walls. It's raining in my heart.

I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.