Quotes About Absence

I've been away so long. I promised I'd return, and I'm afraid… afraid the world's fallen apart around their ears without me. Is that strange?

When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum....

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against The want of you; Of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against The want of you

There's only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.

cómo es que te pienso, región, y no estoy, cómo fue que te dejaste descubrir así de una, me encerraste en el descubrimiento y me dejaste fuera de ti

All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence.

It was all over: dead. He had no idea, where Frankie had gone. But what was worse, he was everywhere.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.

What I have realized is I cannot guarantee the absence of discrimination or hatred or prejudice, but I can guarantee the presence of justice.

It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence.

The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

See you in the darkness.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

There's a very big difference between people deciding to absent themselves from a shared space in order to make a point, which I support, and people deciding to absent somebody else, which I'm absolutely opposed to.

Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.