Quotes About Absence

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

Woman absent is woman dead.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

Cómo fue Dios quedándose sordo y mudo y ausente, irremediablemente atrás como la aurora?

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.

To encounter anything fully is to touch its absence… from "Letterbox

The Gideon Bible was dog-eared. I opened it to its yellow silk marker and saw that Genesis 23:4 had been snipped out.

There. I said it. "Anne is my best friend: I say that in the present tense because I don't like to think of her as gone. Instead, I think of her as...away. Off someplace where I can't talk to her everyday like I used to.

A mí me ha tocado no estar contigo; no tengo miradas para encontrarte ni hay cosa en que pueda reconocerte.

A alma chora pelo que não existe.

Ah! Que linda prova de amor é plantar uma árvore para que alguém amado, ausente, possa se assentar à sua sombra.

De repente os muitos desapareceram da minha frente, e o seu era o único rosto que eu via. Queria estar ao seu lado, segurar a sua mão. Mas você está longe – e fui então para a minha solidão.

Saudade é sentimento de quem ama e perdeu o objeto do amor. Quem não amou e não perdeu o objeto do amor não sente saudade.

Essa ausência tem o nome de saudade. Eu não tenho saudade. É a saudade que me tem. Mora, dentro de mim, a "ausência

The absence of proof does not constitute the proof of absence.

You try to be faithful And sometimes you're cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can't cope. And when you take the lead, I become your footstep. Your absence leaves a void. Without you, I can't cope. You have disturbed my sleep, You have wrecked my image. You have set me apart. Without you, I can't cope.

The stillness and silence shrouding Papá was the most complete I'd ever experienced. The silence came from where his breathing used to be. But it wasn't only his breathing that was missing. It was his presence.

and what is not there is always more than there.

WILD ASTERS I am here to worship the blue asters along the brook; not to carry pollen on my legs, or rub strutted wings in mindless sucking; but to feel with my eyes the loss of you and me, not in the powdered mildew that spreads from leaf to leaf, but in the glorious absence of grief to see what was not meant to be seen, the clusters, the aggregate, the undenying multiplicity.