Quotes About Absence

It causes a jolt of terror to run through him, this absence of official time. Nobody nowhere knows what time it is.

And it is almost impossible to describe happiness because it is the absence of pain, of loneliness, of despair, yet it is infinitely more than just an absence of anything. It resides in small moments, moments that lose their power in the telling but pin themselves fast to our hearts.

It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.

For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

To live in a place where I am not, and in a time that is either past or not yet come.

We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

I wondered if I were glad or sorry to see it—if I were more pleased with his loyalty to his absent employer, or disappointed that my presence had not made everybody else forgotten.

Strano l'amore, è catalogato tra i sentimenti, eppure per l'esistenza della vita è necessario quanto l'aria e l'acqua e ce ne accorgiamo solo quando manca, perché per fortuna, proprio come l'aria e l'acqua c'è bene o male sempre. Al massimo ce n'è poco, ma è quando manca davvero che la vita si spegne.

Abscence makes the heart grow fonder.

She stared in shock. There was nobody there!

There are so many things, he said quietly, that we can't see but that we believe in, so many places that seem to possess an unaccountable feeling, a presence, an absence. Sometimes it takes time to learn this, like a child who suddenly realizes for the first time that the ball he threw over the fence has not disappeared.

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.

Perhaps loneliness is the real proof that we belong to something greater than ourselves, the way absence is proof of what was once a presence.

Destruction doesn't create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence.

When you are alone -- at sea, in the polar dark -- an absence can keep you alive.

A place so empty it was not even haunted

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We will all miss him, even if we don't know it is his absence that is hurting us.

We live forever; but they don't come back.