Quotes About Absence

The Mahabharata declares, 'What is here is nowhere else; what is not here, is nowhere.

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence, is your ultimate absence.

I miss you." "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning." "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.

Sydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days. Unfortunately, it wasn't with me.

No matter how much time and space may come between us, I still feel you.

It's not love that the past needs in order to survive, it's an absence of choices.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.

It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.

Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.

But she felt an unexpected stab of loneliness. Teddy was not there. If she were to reach out to where he had always lain beside her, he would not be there. He would never be there again. Not ever or ever or ever.

She wished he had stayed half a world away for the rest of his life.

Teddy. Diana floated on a cushion of fuzziness and wanted him. She wanted the terrible loneliness to go away. But Teddy was dead. He would never be there again.

I still miss him. There is a loneliness and an emptiness where he was.

I suppose I should warn you, Padre. In the absence of male supervision, my mother has become a revolutionary. ~Renzo Leoni

Sometimes nothing is the scariest thing of all

What if she's dead?" I said. "She'll stay dead," he said. "She'll still be dead come morning.

to be absent from the world and alive, again, in another...

There is one thing dead people excel at. They're

Alas! he is cold, he cannot answer me.

I had rather be with you, he said, in your solitary rambles, than with these Scotch people, whom I do not know: hasten then, my dear friend, to return, that I may again feel myself somewhat at home, which I cannot do in your absence.

It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she, whom we say every day, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have departed for ever—that the brightness of a beloved eye can be extinguished, and the sound of a voice heard.

C'e' un desiderio che non sono mai riuscito a soddisfare, e l'assenza che deriva mi appare come il peggiore dei mali. Non ho un amico, Margaret: quando esultero' nell'entusiasmo del mio successo, nessuno partecipera' alla mia gioia; se saro' assalito dalla delusione, nessuno cerchera' di risollevarmi dall'abbattimento. Consegnero' i miei pensieri alla carta, questo si'; ma per comunicare i sentimenti e' un mezzo insufficiente.

It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she, whom we saw every day, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have been extinguished, and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.