Quotes About Absence

All I want here is a certain space, a certain peace. Or not to be here at all.

Where was he now, my beauteous pupil? I listened but I heard nothing.

What am I, child? Sometimes I think I know not. And sometimes I think I know only too well. Study in my absence. Waste nothing. And I'll be back to you before you know the hour. And then we'll speak of Blood Kisses and secrets and meantime tell no one that you belong to me.

During all the months when she had been absent, there were so many things I have saved up to tell her, so many bits of news about the house and the neighborhood and friends and work and family, but now they seemed inconsequential. Puny. Move far enough away from an event ans it sort of levels out, so to speak - settles into the general landscape.

People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes. The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.

Now she settled into the dailiness of grief—not that first piercing stab but the steady, persistent ache of it, the absence that feels like a presence.

Grilled cheese sandwiches were all he knew how to make. He fried them over high heat and they gave off a sharp, salty smell that Willa had learned to associate with their mother's absences—her sick headaches and her play rehearsals and the times she slammed out of the house.

He thought of how it would be if his father returned some time in he future, when Cody was a man. Look at what I've accomplished, Cody would tell him. Notice where I've got to, how far I've come without you. Was it something I said? Was it something I did? Was it something I didn't do, that made you go away?

I've missed you, Frank.' 'I haven't breathed since you left.

The truer urge she had was to provide for him what his life had lacked; there was an area of experience, of laughter and domestic pleasure, which was apparently unknown to him; and the shape of that absence seemed to be the shape of her own self.

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

I lay in my bed and tried not to miss him, to miss the entire experience of him. I wanted to feel the shape of him beside me. I wanted him to touch my hair. To kiss me, long and velvety slow.

I am still jealous that Phoebe's mother came back and mine did not. I miss my mother.

Clearly, these two developments—corporate dominance and a managed electorate—point to a certain political rigidity that is reflected in perhaps the most striking aspect of the present predicament: the absence of alternatives other than variations on the theme of economic orthodoxy.

At what point do we just re-create the people who have disappeared from our lives?

I prayed to Our Father and I called my father. And one father remained silent and the other quickly came to get me.

Have I chosen friends because they smell like absence?

Even if I were lying on the sun itself, I would be freezing there without you. (Zarek)

The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it.

Most of all, she'd missed feeling connected to someone else. Being a vital part of them—aching when they were on a trip, knowing that someone was out there missing her and counting the heartbeats until they were back together again. There was nothing else like living and breathing for the smile of someone she loved. -leta

Even the most simple thing such as looking up the sky could bring comfort to you, even when the one you loved was far away.

Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.