Quotes About Absence

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

Silence is the fruit of the occupation; it hangs in branches, seeps from gutters.

She has had two lovers. The first was a visiting scientist who never returned, and the second was a Canadian named John who scattered things—ties, coins, socks, breath mints—around any room he entered.

It's the absence of all the bodies, she thinks, that allows us to forget. It's that the sod seals them over.

silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the past.

Does she grieve over his absence? Or has she calcified her feelings, protected herself, as he is learning to do?

He is a ghost. He is from some other world. He is Papa, Madame Manec, Etienne; he is everyone who has left her finally coming back.

Everybody has misplaced someone

When they were first married and Albert went away on trips for work, Jutta would wake in the predawn hours and remember those first nights after Werner left for Schulpforta and feel all over again the searing pain of his absence.

His longing is such that Rex's absence becomes something like a presence, a scalpel left behind in his gut.

Snowy, milky, chalky. A color that is the absence of color. Every morning he ties his shoes, packs newspaper inside his coat as insulation against the cold, and begins interrogating the world.

It's the absence of all the bodies, she thinks, that allows us to forget. It's that the sod seals them over.

I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.

A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

People always say to me, 'Well, how can a marriage last when you're away as much as you are?' And I always say, 'Well, absence makes the heart grow fonder.' That time apart from each other has actually strengthened our relationship.

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

I took a leave of absence for a year to coach at San Francisco State under Vic Rowen, fully intending to go back to high school.

I'm busy, man, too busy. There's a lamentable absence of free time.

I grew up mainly with my mother, and I would see my father from time to time. But I didn't have a constant male figure.

Ya te he dicho que eres lo único que cuenta en mi vida. Cuando no estoy contigo te pienso tanto que creo que puedes sentirme.