Quotes About Absence

For Perry, the absence of his daughter in his day-to-day life was like an open wound, an emptiness in his being that erupted in agony with even the softest touch of memory.

We all laughed, but it wasn't really a room for laughter. Nor for tears, oddly, or for anger, or for any emotion other than a sort of solemnity. It was the place of absence; we were in the presence of something that had left. It was like coming to a valley where someone had once shouted, loud and joyously, and the echo of that shout had resonated between the hills and lasted a long time. But now it had vanished, and you stood on the same spot, and it was not the same.

Someone at Portland Row really missed you, you know... Me. - Holly

Piano player's gone," Scarlett said. "That's always a bad sign.

He was right here and nowhere to be found.

I haven't seen her in a while, haven't returned her calls or stopped thinking about her.

Is negative space the space you don't like, or the space that is not there? And if it's not there how can you tell?

We Burmese,' he began, 'are experts at looking for what's not there. It's something you should learn to do too. You must look for what's missing and learn how to find the truth in these absences.

The absent are always in the wrong

When the cat's away the mice will play.

In a strange way', she thought, 'these absences suit my nature though not my heart. I love him, I miss him, but I have time to put on my humanity again.

Quando noi viviamo la morte non c'è, quando c'è lei non ci siamo noi.

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul. It

La morte, il più terribile dei mali, non è niente. Quando ci siamo noi la morte non c'è, e quando c'è lei noi non siamo più.

Remember, null is intended to represent an object that isn't there.

Bonhoeffer's rule never to speak about a brother in his absence. Bonhoeffer knew that living according to what Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount was not "natural" for anyone.

How many people are ready to die for beauty, prepared to go through an infernal desert of starvation. Absence of beauty means ultimate loneliness. Absence of beauty means guilt and exile into a no-man's land. Life is an outcast's journey through a gloomy valley, when beauty has forsaken. ("Absence of beauty was like hell").

The worst bit of the dream," Pebble Heart murmured as his breathing slowed. "Was that you were gone." "Hush." Gray Wing's belly tightened. "Turtle Tail was gone too. We were alone. Just me and Sparrow Fur and Owl Eyes. We were all alone.

As he looked across to the opposite bank a cold claw sank into his heart. Sandstorm was gone.

I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life.' -Patch (PG 274)

Nothing is more real than nothing.

One of the reasons hunger is so hard to pin down is that it is a negative concept, an absence.

Often, however, the remembering through food is bittersweet, because even when you have tracked down every last herb and spice, the missing ingredient is the cook. You find you don't want pasta "just like mama used to make"; you actually want mama herself.