Quotes About Absence

He opened the door and saw the Jeep. She stood in front of it, leaning against the hood, arms crossed over her chest, getting wet in the freezing drizzle. His heart lurched. Almost three weeks since he'd seen her and his feelings hadn't given him a break. He still wanted her so bad it hurt. "You

In the morning when she woke, he had gone. He left a note. "Sweetheart. Selling wood, plowing some roads. I won't be too long. Ian." "Sweetheart," she whispered to herself. She folded it in half and quarters and found a safe place in her wallet to preserve it. Forever.

There's never going to be an economy rich enough or a government program strong enough to compensate for the lack of a stable family and the absence of self-discipline.

Andy also skipped his wife's private burial in the Brooklin Cemetery, in July, 1977. None of us in the family expected otherwise or held this against him. And when his own memorial came, eight years later, I took the chance to remark, "If Andy White could be with us today he would not be with us today.

Being Dead means very light housekeeping

Un palais aux murs De vent Un palais dont les tours Sont de flamme au grand jour Un palais d'opale Au cœur du zénith L'oiseau fait d'air pâle Y vole vite Laisse une traînée blanche Dans l'espace noir Son vol dessine un signe Qui signifie absence

Warum sollte nicht fehlen können, was man nie besaß?

I make the other's absence responsible for my worldliness.

Kitab? Poetry and Experience'ta (?iir ve Deneyim) Archibald Mac-Leish, kar??la?man?n iki kutbu için olas? olan en evrensel terimleri kullan?r: "Varl?k ve Yokluk." Çinli bir ?airden al?nt? yapar: "Biz ?airlerin yoklukla mücadelesi, onu varl??? ortaya ç?kartmaya zorlamak içindir. Sessizli?i bir müzik yan?t? almak için t?klat?r?z.

Aš gul?jau ten, ži?r?jau ? j? ir pratinasi b?ti dviese. Kai tavo gyvenime nieko n?ra, taip jau išeina, kad ten susigr?d? daug žmoni?. O kai kas nors yra, tai j? kur kas mažiau.

The fundamental sanity of Indian civilization has been due to an absence of Satan.

A fundamental sanity in Indian civilization has been due to an absence of Satan.

The absence of conversion accounted for the absence of the distinction between the true follower and the infidel or pagan.

They put Omani in his box, They're using nails instead of locks. But at his funeral don't despair, The chances are he won't be there.

Wherever I am, in wood or field, By dawn or evening light, Without cease my heart feels The pain of one who is not here...

Delphine began to read with a mad attention when she wanted to talk to Clarisse. She saw that in her life there was a woman-shaped hole, a cutout that led to a mysterious place. Through it, her mother, then Eva, and now Clarisse had walked. If only she could plunge her arms through and drag them back.

And so, you see, her absence stopped time. What

She has decided to appear to nobody but the feckless.

And so, you see, her absence stopped time.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. Our pulse is set to theirs, and as always on a weekend afternoon we were waiting for my mother to start us ticking away on the evening. And so, you see, her absence stopped time.

How strange that her absence would have no effect whatsoever on the things of this world. Proving that they were not just things, she thought, proving that they were spirit surrounded by a shell of substance, just like her.

I FEEL ALL THE SAME THINGS WHEN I DO THINGS ALONE AS WHEN OLE GOLLY WAS HERE. THE BATH FEELS HOT, THE BED FEELS SOFT, BUT I FEEL THERE'S A FUNNY LITTLE HOLE IN ME THAT WASN'T THERE BEFORE, LIKE A SPLINTER IN YOUR FINGER, BUT THIS IS SOMEWHERE ABOVE MY STOMACH.

I thought of myself as missing.

gone out somewhere—had he