Quotes About Absence

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost.

he expected to find Piglet warming his toes in front of his fire, but to his surprise he saw that the door was open, and the more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

Aléjate, si puedes. Volverás con el hambre a flor de piel.

Mais ce vertige dans le choeur du coeur de l'absence. Séduire et raconter toute la nuit comme si comme si. Détruire. Circuler dans le sang tumultueux, les orgies des appels dans l'histoire. Défoncer les images, je lèche ton corps, t'appelle, mouille les blessures, échancre l'armature, l'abandon illusoire à flots de salive.

S'il existe un cimetière des mots arrachés aux êtres qui comprennent, je veux pouvoir m'y promener.

Of his entire life, the worst moments had been during the three or four months after Nora had died, when he'd awakened to the heart-constricting knowledge that she wasn't there anymore.

You cannot imagine how much I miss you... The house does not feel the same. I keep feeling that you are here or thinking that I see you. I even think that I can hear you some afternoons...I go out to see... I look for you, but I can't find you. My life is not the same without you.

I have learned how to make time pass, but I never stop thinking of you.

Yet a cruel world too often injures my feelings, by wondering how a person, possessed of domestic attachments, can sacrifice them by absenting himself for years.

You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And now you are gone and my name is just my name again, not the story of my life.

I realized that my father's absence is our slippers. In order to start to get rid of your slippers, you have to admit they are yours, and if you do, then they will get rid of themselves.

You're the muscle I cut from the bone and still the bone remembers, still it wants (so much, it wants) the flesh back, the real thing, if only to rail against it, if only to argue and fight, if only to miss a solve-able absence.

Furthermore, unlike many other great predators of history, from Genghis Khan to the Spanish conquistadors, King Leopold II never saw a drop of blood spilled in anger. He never set foot in the Congo. There is something very modern about that, too, as there is about the bomber pilot in the stratosphere, above the clouds, who never hears screams or sees shattered homes or torn flesh.

It's hard to imagine losing a family, to have someone you love just disappear like that.

This feeling of being in proximity to something that's lost to you, it seems like my whole life right now.

wanting is what we do to survive, and we want only what isn't there

However much you have been wanting and hoping and dreaming of meeting the person of your dreams, it is only when you meet them that you will start missing them. It seems that the presence of an object is required to make its absence felt (or to make the absence of something felt). A kind of longing may have preceded their arrival, but you have to meet in order to feel the full force of your frustration in their absence.

This is an absence of evidence, which we scientists like to remind people is not the same as evidence of absence.

have fallen into the tempting trap of mistaking absence of evidence for evidence of absence.

What has made central bankers into the exemplar of modern crisis-fighting is the vacuum created by the evisceration of organized labor, the absence of inflationary pressure, and more broadly, the lack of antisystemic challenge.

I think I've missed you every day," he whispered.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

Silence can be a plan rigorously executed the blueprint to a life It is a presence it has a history a form Do not confuse it with any kind of absence

In the never, still arriving, I find you again: blue absence keeps knowledge alive, makes of October an adjusted lens. The days have almost no clouds left.