Quotes About Absence

Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.

Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.

No, he's asleep. Where's my mother? Is

When she returned to the office, she found that Mr Jasper Cohen had gone abruptly on holiday. His son had been killed in Spain—he had been shot, near Madrid, rather more than a year before; a friend of his had written, on returning safe to England, to tell his father so.

About his lengthening absence, Kathi spoke only once, and then obliquely, for there were some things too painful for words.

Absence is absence, whatever causes it. It is no more or less an affront to you. I did say, as I remember, that I would try to do what you wished me to do. And that you must forgive me if I failed.

Try to remember.… There is a difference between absence and death. And you are needed.

I do not exist. What you have in your hand is my death certificate.

Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.

He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

There was a distinct absence of anything female in the room--the same sort of absence that a missing picture leaves behind it on a wall.

Nunca renunció formalmente. Una mañana se limitó a salir tarde de su despacho y no ha vuelto. Aunque ya ha transcurrido más de un siglo, muchos miembros del personal de la Guía siguen conservando la idea romántica de que sólo ha salido a tomar un croissant de jamón, y que volverá a cumplir una tarde de trabajo continuado.

He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

They obstinately persisted in their absence

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons

It was rather like the exit of a bumblebee and left a noticeable silence behind it.

O maid most dear, I am not here. I have no place, no part, No dwelling more by sea nor shore, But only in thy heart.

it was only then that I understood how longing for a place can take you over so that you can do nothing except return, as I did, return and pick at the city, scraping together bits of the place you once knew. But what do you do if you can never return?

a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

A new form will always seem more or less an absence of any form at all, since it is unconsciously judged by reference to the consecrated forms.

With our passing, might some lost contribution of ours leave the planet a bit more impoverished? It is possible that, instead of heaving a huge biological sigh of relief, the world without us would miss us?

Dad was wiped from our lives. The day after he died, every photo of him disappeared from the house. It was as if he'd never existed. Me and my brothers weren't even allowed to go to his funeral. His death was made absolute.