Quotes About Absence

You lose the ability to trust anyone, to be touched, to grieve. Eventually, you are simply absent from yourself.

Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'.

Si jamás te tocara, qué profunda extrañeza-.

Si jamás te tocara, qué profunda extrañeza de su poemario: La velocidad del mundo

I brought pictures to the inn, to show you who I'd been, but I saw at once my mistake, the hurt in your eyes, and you said, It hurts that I wasn't with you.

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.

I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.

Alice suspected Paul couldn't really picture his father, just like she couldn't picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

I still think about him sometimes. I dream about him too. I try to remember what he looked like. It's hard to remember, though, either because of time or because of strong feelings. I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.

It was amazing, really, the effort that went into the absence of things.

she'd taken a leave of absence when Squirt was born).

Neither Hubert, Melissa, nor Cutesy can come to the phone now.

You don't have to love somebody to miss them. You get used to having them around, like a cat or a bird.

AGALAXY  (A'GALAXY)   n.s.[Gr.] Want of milk.Dict.

called in sick that day. When the nutcase

I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I'd call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually that was gone too.

Mom always says that doubt is just another way of expressing faith... This is different than doubt. This is something I've never felt before, a total absence of whatever it is that's made me who I am, on the inside, all my life.

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

At every wedding someone stays home.

Like no longer having something could be a good thing, and the proof of it as well. I was used to the opposite, when absence equaled heartbreak.

But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who were right in front of you.

Isn't it weird the way you remember things, when someone's gone?

Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone.