Quotes About Absence

We always think of what's missing.

Dio è la voce dell'assente, l'assente più presente di tutti sei tu, finto Dio che fingi di essere un poeta malato di civiltà: parole inusuali e ineguali usi a tuo uso e consumo per corrompere, bastonare gli umani: io vivo e questo ti dispiace, ho un corpo e questo ti rammarica.

The deceptive thing about the little figure that is not there is that its absence so often goes unnoticed. That, of course, is the secret of its success.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

will probably fall apart while they try to decide who's going to care of business in his absence.

There's such a thing as chronic pain, but there's no such thing as chronic pleasure. ... For an existing person, the presence of bad things is bad and the presence of good things is good. But compare that with a scenario in which that person never existed—then, the absence of the bad would be good, but the absence of the good wouldn't be bad, because there'd be nobody to be deprived of those good things.

Just as absent pleasures that do deprive are 'bad' in the sense of 'worse', so absent pleasures that do not deprive are 'not bad' in the sense of 'not worse'.

absent pleasures are not bad

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

He still felt her absence; it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. You wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.

The bodies were gone, with no sign that they'd ever been there in the first place.

Silencio. El vacío que ella había dejado cuando desapareció seguía en su cabeza.

And when she left, it was like opening up that vast void within all over again.

I've thought about you every second since they took you away.

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

It may be somewhat paradoxical to refer to shame as a 'feeling,' for while shame is initially painful, constant shaming leads to a deadening of feeling. Shame, like cold, is, in essence, the absence of warmth. And when it reaches overwhelming intensity, shame is experienced, like cold, as a feeling of numbness and deadness. [In Dante's Inferno] the lowest circle of hell was a region not of flames, but of ice---absolute coldness.

The conspicuous absence of the lynching tree in American theological discourse and preaching is profoundly revealing, especially since the crucifixion was clearly a first-century lynching.

Perhaps Eurydice wants to remain marginal, a shade insubstantial… the mute waste in a limbo without light and without depth are a style of anima fascinations in which the absence of significance is the significance.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

As I stand in the vestibule of self-abnegation, I wish to say that I have no regrets. Unfortunately, that would be the foulest lie. I fiercely regret my impending absence.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.

His absence has only made him more present.

I couldn't even picture Mavis's face anymore. It was sad. She was being erased. I wanted to put my finger on her forehead, but there was nothing there.