Quotes About Absence

Algunos días detestaba el mar; era monótono e infinito como la ausencia.

My eyes followed André. Maybe it is during those moments, as I watch him disappear, that he exists for me with the most overwhelming clarity: his tall shape grows smaller, each pace marking out the path of his return; it vanishes and the street seems to be empty; but in fact it is a field of energy that will lead him back to me as to his natural habitat: I find this certainty even more moving than his presence.

C'était tellement attendu, et tellement inconcevable, (...). C'était elle encore, et à jamais son absence.

It is useless to try to integrate life and death and to behave rationally in the presence of something that is not rational: each must manage as well as he can in the tumult of his feelings. I can understand all last wishes and the total absence of them: the hugging of the bones or the abandonment of the body of the one you love to the common grave.

Je ne tenais pas particulièrement à revoir maman avant sa mort; mais je ne supportais pas l'idée qu'elle ne me reverrait pas. Pourquoi accorder tant d'importance à un instant, puisqu'il n'y aura pas de mémoire? Il n'y aura pas non plus de réparation. J'ai compris pour mon propre compte, jusque dans la moelle de mes os, que dans les derniers moments d'un moribond on puisse enfermer l'absolu.

É prático, quando ela se ausenta, as pessoas pensam que está procurando outro slogan. Um cigarro na mão esquerda, a mão direita aberta e levantada para prevenir interrupções.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

Perfect joy excludes even the very feeling of joy, for in the soul filled by the object no corner is left for saying 'I'. We cannot imagine such joys when they are absent, thus the incentive for seeking them is lacking.

We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.

There are four evidences of divine mercy here below. The favors of God to beings capable of contemplation (these states exist and form part of their experience as creatures). The radiance of these beings, and their compassion, which is the divine compassion in them. The beauty of the world. The fourth evidence is the complete absence of mercy here below.

God can never be perfectly present to us here below on account of our flesh. But he can be almost perfectly absent from us in extreme affliction. This is the only possibility of perfection for us on earth. That is why the Cross is our only hope.

we can say the beauty of the world is nearly absent in the Christian tradition. This is a terrible omission. How can Christianity claim the right to call itself catholic if the universe itself is absent within it?

God can only be present in creation under the form of absence.

Piety in regard to the dead: to do everything for what does not exist.

We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, for we have not reached the point where God exists.

Affiiction makes God appear to be absent for a time, more absent than a dead man, more absent than light in the utter darkness of a cell. A kind of horror submerges the whole soul. During this absence there is nothing to love. What is terrible is that if, in this darkness where there is nothing to love, the soul ceases to love, God's absence becomes final.

lilo on the floor next to my bed was empty. I looked out of the window

Lucy Ashton, in short, was involved in those mazes of the imagination which are most dangerous to the young and the sensitive. Time, it is true, absence, change of place and of face, might probably have destroyed the illusion in her instance as it has done in many others.

Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer;

I am at the end. I exist no more.

The dead alone can feel no touch of spite.

Not the shape of one I loved. The ashes of a ghost.

An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence

Death is a continuation of my life without me...