Quotes About Absence

Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

She was there beside him, an incalculable distance away.

Nadie vino a verla. Así estuvo mejor. La muerte no se reparte como si fuera un bien. Nadie anda en busca de tristezas.

Sí. Y tal vez no regrese. Así comenzaron todos. Que voy a ir aquí, que voy a ir más allá. Hasta que se fueron alejando tanto, que mejor no volvieron.

Y en días de aire se ve al viento arrastrando hojas de árboles, cuando aquí, como tu ves, no hay árboles. Los hubo en algún tiempo, porque si no ¿de dónde saldrían esas hojas?

No me oyes? --pregunté en voz baja. Y su voz me respondió: --Dónde estás? --Estoy aquí, en tu pueblo. Junto a tu gente. No me ves? --No, hijo, no te veo. Su voz parecía abarcarlo todo. Se perdía más de la tierra. --No te veo.

Siempre vivió ella suspirando por Comala, por el retorno; pero jamás volvió. Ahora yo vengo en su lugar.

ich verspüre eine Eifersucht auf alle Winter, die du haben wirst, ohne mich.

The withdrawal of the king from the narrative exposes the king as an irrelevance. The one with all the power can do nothing to save. Because it is only "my God who saves.

Nought but vast sorrow was there—The sweet cheat gone.

Es war sogar etwas Tröstliches in dieser toten Welt, denn die Abwesenheit von Leben bedeutet auch die Abwesenheit von Gefahr. Alles Böse geht von den Lebenden aus.

Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.

They confirmed that father absence is not just correlated with negative outcomes but actually causes negative outcomes.

Many fathers are gone. Some leave, some are left. Some return, unknown and hungry. Only the dog remembers. —NICK FLYNN, ANOTHER BULLSHIT NIGHT IN SUCK CITY Their

The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn't a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well.

Steve doesn't work here anymore." Madeline sat in the cul-de-sac, trying to absorb the words she'd just heard. "I haven't seen Steve since he was laid off. That was at the beginning of September. About six months ago.

and all I ever really wonder is if you think about me when I'm not there.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

In the absence of a competing intuition, logic prevails.

It's rough being without a librarian for a whole month, isn't it?" Starr Lackawanna said. "Yes!" we all said.

I'd never met him, so I never missed him.

Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.

Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

Sabes lo que es un suspiro? —Supongo que me lo dirás. —Es el aire que te sobra por alguien que te falta.