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Quotes About Absence

Too many heroes in my life. All gone.
~ Tatjana Soli
You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.
~ Virginia Woolf
Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable.
~ Justus von Liebig
Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
~ Freya Stark
How long will you be gone?
~ John Flanagan
haven't seen hide nor hair of her
~ John Flanagan
she wondered where the food had escaped to.
~ John Flanagan
feeling for a pulse. There was none.
~ John Flanagan
the wind has a purpose - to rattle the window panes, disturb the cat and make me miss you ...
~ John Geddes
goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness...
~ John Geddes
Venice had no memories of her father, a policeman killed in the line of duty before she was born, and it was a source of pain that she'd never truly overcome. For as long as she could remember, she'd always dreamed about what her father might have sounded like and smelled like. The picture on Mama's dresser gave her a face, but she'd never know the voice that went with it.
~ John Gilstrap
Sadder than a ticking clock, the moments without you
~ john j geddes
amentalio n. the sadness of realizing that you're already forgetting sense memories of the departed-already struggling to hear their voice, picture the exact shade of their eyes, or call to mind little gestures you once knew by heart.
~ John Koenig
There was the ocean, like a recurring character you forgot about for long stretches.
~ Elif Batuman
Shooter's absence is more powerful than Benji's presence.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
But the road was still sunny, the gulls cried out. Neil was gone, and for a second, Jem felt something he thought might be peace.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
didn't understand how lucky I was to have her until she was gone.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
be missing her. He had to be thinking
~ Elin Hilderbrand
The morning after my death we will sit in cafés but I will not be there I will not be
~ Elinor Wylie
Because Tarik was dead.
~ Eliot Schrefer
Fear is the absence of spiritual connection, meaning it's the relative absence of love, meaning it's the relative absence of light.
~ Elisa Medhus