Quotes About Absence

I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.

It is only the dead who do not return.

d'Artagnan is right, said Athos; here are our three leaves of absence which came from Monsieur de Treville, and here are three hundred pistoles which came from I don't know where. So let us go and get killed where we are told to go. Is life worth the trouble of so many questions?

the distance fills and nearness is a void

The world has a body and I have none

Less is more" was one of Meisner's mantras. "Silence has myriad meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning." Most of all, Meisner urged his students to think of acting a role as "living truthfully under given imaginary circumstances.

I am taking this in, slowly, Taking it into my body. This grief. How slow The body is to realize You are never coming back.

She looked at Farrell because there was nothing else to look at.

Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.

She was especially interested in finding a way to rule in, or rule out, the existence of a soul. Above all else, this was the most fundamental question posed by the capabilities her father's technology made possible. His results so far seemed to indicate that one didn't exist. But absence of proof was not the same as proof of absence.

I demanded. "Good question. All we know is that she's vanished without a trace.

I just hope that you miss me a little when Im gone.

Saying she should be the one I see every time that Im here, but when am I really even here?

Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

How did her life live itself without her.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.