Quotes About Absence

It's true that he didn't kill himself until I was nearly twenty. But his absence resonated retroactively, echoing back through all the time I knew him. Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb. He really was there all those years, a flesh-and-blood presence steaming off the wallpaper, digging up the dogwoods, polishing the finials... smelling of sawdust and sweat and designer cologne. But I ached as if he were already gone.

It could be argued that death is inherently absurd, and that grinning is not necessarily an inappropriate response. I mean absurd in the sense of ridiculous, unreasonable. One second a person is there, the next they're not.

My mother must have bathed me hundreds of times. But it's my father rinsing me off with the purple metal cup that I remember most clearly. The suffusion of warmth as the hot water sluiced over me... ...the sudden, unbearable cold of its absence.

It's true that he didn't kill himself until I was nearly twenty. But his absence resonated retroactively, echoing back through all the time I knew him. Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb. He really was there all those years, a flesh-and-blood presence smelling of sawdust and sweat and designer cologne. But I ached as if he were already gone.

Dicen que el dolor adopta muchas formas, incluyendo la ausencia del dolor.

Paul had already resolved to account for Henry's absence by overdubbing the lead guitar lines himself; Seiwell's leaving complicated that plan only slightly, since Paul was also an able drummer. Mostly, though, the defections activated one of Paul's strongest internal motivators—prevailing against the odds and the I told you so's

ABSENCE, n. That which makes the heart grow fonder — of absence. Absence of mind is the cerebral condition essential to success in popular preaching. It is sometimes termed lack of sense.

I can see her on your arm like an empty dress, a kind of echo at a higher pitch.

And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye and the letting go.

He watched until Danny passed through the gates, turned left, and disappeared from sight. Jude never saw him again.

Because there is no God. Your prayers are whispers to an empty room.

It's horrible when your heart is somewhere your body is not.

the absence of clear boundaries between schizophrenia and bipolar disorders has led some clinicians to prefer the term "psychosis,

the shadow person', the light breath of wind caused by the simultaneous presence and absence of a person who had never died nor entirely departed, just faded into melancholy abstraction.

I wish there was a word that meant goodbye for someone who was already gone.

When we die, I believe we go to a better place: nowhere.

When it snows, that's just God's way of still not existing.

My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

Mental health is produced socially: the presence or absence of mental health is above all a social indicator and therefore requires social, as well as individual, solutions.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours