Quotes About Absence

I don't want to think about living in a world where you're not in it, all right?

When Matussem Ramoud opened his eyes each morning, his wife would still not be there.

I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you

For four years she'd subsisted on memories of this—his voice, his face, the sound of his breath and his heartbeat. She felt him like a leaf feels the sun, like a magnet feels metal.

I had the feeling if I hadn't been there

Yet—some Frenchman had written—"absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.

Once in the war I saw a dead horse that had been lying long against the ground. Time and the birds and its own last concentration had removed the body a great way from the head. As I looked upon the head, my memory weighed for the lost body; and because of that missing quantity even heavier hung that head along the ground. So love, when it has gone, taking time with it, leaves a memory of its weight.

So love, when it has gone, taking time with it, leaves a memory of its weight

Nothing is emptier than an empty house. The vacant kitchen chair, the imprint on a sofa cushion, the pillow unsplayed with hair, absent of scent. An unspoken thought, an unshared laugh, the silence of no footsteps, no sighs, no breaths.

He wishes Marie were here, that's all. No one who hasn't missed a beloved spouse will ever know the literal meaning of the word "heartache

Your presence in this house is almost as enormous and painful as your absence.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.

I am disappearing. Maybe I'm already gone.

My hand feels cold without his.

I am disappearing maybe I am already gone.

Now she's gone and not just for a few days but forever. How can something so final happen in an instant? No preparation. No warning. No chance to do all the things you planned to do. No chance to say goodbye.

Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

When a person you love dies, it doesn't feel real. It's like it's happening to someone else. It's someone else's life. I've never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?

It doesn't become important until you don't have it anymore.

Everybody had somebody but me.