Quotes About Absence

And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

Si atunci regreti de-a nu fi cunoscut mai multe iluzii pentru a te legana în amarul absentei lor.

By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You shall be my sole glory. . . . Let "desire" be forever stricken from the dictionary, and from the soul! I retreat before the dizzying farce of tomorrows. And if I still cling to a few hopes, I have lost forever the faculty of hoping

Cinicul este spectatorul acestei universale absente. El priveste - îndurerat sau rîzînd — la nimic.

Am primit azi scrisoarea cu fotografia tatii. In cea mic?, l-am g?sit aproape neschimbat, doar puÅ£in îmb?trînit; în cealalt?, luat? în catedral?, l-am reg?sit cu greu, c?ci tr?s?turile exprim? senin?tatea teribil? a veÅŸniciei. M? gîndesc cît de cumplite trebuie s? fie zilele f?r? el.

Din tot ce-i fugar - ÅŸi nimic nu-i altfel - culege prin senzaÅ£ii esenÅ£e ÅŸi intensit??i. Unde s? cauÅ£i realul? N-ai unde. Doar în gama emoÅ£iilor. Ce nu se ridic? la ele e ca ÅŸi cum n-ar fi. Un univers neutru e mai absent decât unul fictiv.

There is no such thing as a perfect vacuum in history. That unheard-of absence to which we are reduced, and which I have the pleasure and the misfortune to reveal to you, you would be mistaken to imagine merely a blank, uninscribed; for in it I discern—presentiment or hallucination?—a kind of expectation of other gods. Which ones? No one can say. All I know, and it is what everyone knows, is that a situation like ours cannot be endured indefinitely.

In paradise, objects and beings, assaulted by light from all sides, cast no shadow. Which is to say that they lack reality, like anything that is unbroached by darkness and deserted by death.

I draw the curtains, and I wait. Actually, I am not waiting for anything, I am merely making myself absent. Scoured, if only for a few minutes, of the impurities which dim and clog the mind, I accede to a state of consciousness from which the self is evacuated, And I am as soothed as if I were resting outside the universe.

Without God, everything is nothingness; and God? Supreme nothingness.

Todo lo que no tiende a la pureza de la nada está embebido de una feroz vulgaridad

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Tu n'es pas venue. Je t'ai attendue des heures ou des jours, je ne sais. Je ne le sais pas parce que j'ai cessé d'être moi-même pour devenir une masse uniquement sensible à ton absence, comme si dans le vide pouvait se former un monceau de douleur, d'angoisses, comme si le néant avait un être.

There was one thing that always disturbed me profoundly. Sometimes, no matter how intently I would be staring at him, I would have the feeling that Hitoshi wasn't there.

Wenn wir uns wiedersehen, wollen wir dies sicher noch ein weiteres Mal, wenn wir einmal miteinander schlafen, wollen wir das wieder machen, ein zweites, drittes, viertes Mal, immer wieder, immer mehr, und weil das, glaube ich, Liebe bedeuten würde, weiß ich nicht, ob ich so für einen Menschen, der nie da ist, empfinden will.

I'd always believed I didn't take up a lot of space in this world—that it hardly mattered whether I was here or not. When a person left, the people around them got used to their absence. That was true enough. But when I pictured the world without me, and the people I loved living on in it, I couldn't help but feel like crying.

my mother disappeared from my life forever.

Dad's absence in our lives now was so complete it almost felt cruel. In six months' time, I would be in a place I'd never been before, being stimulated by lots of new experiences, continuing my journey toward the flavors of the next phase of my life.

All the lovely things I've known have disappeared.

Kindly keep your emotions for some time when I am not present.

You can't miss what you never had.

Emptiness did that to a person. Her insides were a big black hole where dreams of her mother had been.

his cell phone; he could have been anywhere.