Quotes About Absence

I've come to understand the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with the space where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

When I desire you a part of me is gone...

My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I.

What you didn't have, you didn't have.

Tell me what has happened in this week that you've been absent from my window.

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love." from "Memoriam

I have this theory that actually, after an absence you discover in that first glimpse what you really think and feel about another person. You know things you couldn't know before.

I have this theory actually, that after an absence you discover in that first glimpse what you really think and feel about another person. You know things you couldn't know before

It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I'd envision his face.

People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.

This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.

I swung the door open and relaxed. She wasn't there. I stepped in and shut the door behind me. I had promised God I wouldn't touch anything. I'd just look at what was lying around. If Jane Eyre had only looked around a little, she might have saved herself a lot of heartache.

J'ai toujours voulu écrire comme si je devais être absente à la parution du texte. Écrire comme si je devais mourir, qu'il n'y ait plus de juges.

I write in lieu of love, to fill that empty space above death.

Marie-Claude m'a appelée. Jean-Yves est mort vendredi dernier. Il m'arrive de penser que nous sommes mystérieusement liés aux êtres et que leur disparition produit des « ondes ». Vendredi, ce jour où j'ai été si mal, où tout a paru me manquer, a été le jour de la mort de J.-Yves. Je ne l'ai jamais revu depuis juillet 63. Il m'avait confié : « Je n'ai pas d'ami. »

J'ai toujours voulu écrire comme si je devais être absente à la parution du texte. Écrire comme si je devais mourir, qu'il n'y ait plus de juges.

Ces souvenirs-là sont terribles chaque fois que je pense : il ne viendra plus, il ne dira plus ces mots-là, d'une manière brève, russe.

nos sentíamos rodeados de cosas ausentes que tendríamos derecho a comprar más tarde.

Je fais du jardinage, je sarcle la pente et je me souviens d'octobre dernier où, dans la douleur, parce qu'il ne m'avait pas appelée, je travaillais là, de la même manière.

Relisant le cahier de l'année dernière : ce n'était pas plus brillant, très vide. Cela ne console pas. Je commence à souffrir de l'absence de S. une semaine, six jours, après le dernier rendez-vous. À ce moment-là, je cesse de vouloir écrire pour lui, je veux écrire pour l'oublier, me détacher de lui, qui m'apparaît toujours sous le visage de Vronski.

If laws are just properties of objects, how can those laws continue to operate when the object is not really there?

Well, I don't have a father, so there's no daddy being protective of the daughter.