Quotes About Absence

it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not.

Bez ljubavi smo kao leš na odsustvu.

A boutonniere rested beside each plate. Everyone wore tuxedos. There was not a woman in sight.

After a few moment he reached for her wrist and felt her pulse fade to nothing, like the rumble of a receding train.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

The war was a long way away. Maybe there wasn't any war. There was no war here. Then I realized it was over for me. But I did not have the feeling that it was really over. I had the feeling of a boy who thinks of what is happening at a certain hour at the schoolhouse from which he has played truant.

He was going to sleep a little while. He lay still and death was not there. It must have gone around another street. It went in pairs, on bicycles, and moved absolutely silently on the pavements.

The whole thing seemed to run better while I was away.

It evidently made no difference whether I was there to look after things or not.

May the Lord watch between thee and me while we are absent the one from the other.

The three of us sat at the table, and it seemed as though about six people were missing.

Who knows? Since we do not have God here any more, neither His Son nor the Holy Ghost, who forgives? I do not know.

This is perhaps why so many of us who know love fear love. We know that love is not the absence of pain. If anything, love is the promise of pain. No one has loved more deeply than God. Has anyone ever been more betrayed? God would not know suffering if He did not know love. But because He is Love, He chose to suffer on our behalf. Without love there is no glory in suffering.

It is the very absence of psychological complexity that fuels his arousal.

the actual joy of acting lies in the absence of personality.

And music, your music, it teases at my ear. I turn and it fades away and you're not here! Let hopes pass! Let dreams pass! Let them die! Without you, what are they for? I always feel no more than half-way real 'til I hear you sing once more!

But won't you miss me?" . . . "I already do," he said.

When they're alive, it's easy to see the flaws. When they're gone, you tend to notice only the hole in the Earth that they left.

He realized straight away that the conversation hadn't advanced a jot during his short absence.

Time stands still when someone dear vanishes from life.

You know, when you've lost the person you love most in life, the pain doesn't ever feel like it's going to go away. It's not going to be okay. You're never going to hold them in your arms again, never going to laugh at their stupid jokes, never going to quarrel over something trivial . . . they're never . . . just never there again.

Sin ti la poesía ya no me dice nada, y nada tengo que decirle a ella.