Quotes About Absence

and Ama Clutch was gone, and the overly subordinate pillowcase took a small spill of human juice from the edge of her slackened mouth.

Her head had turned quickly away...Not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.

Lurline est la reine des fées qui volait au-dessus des déserts de sable, avant d'apercevoir le splendide pays vert d'Oz. Elle laissa sa fille Ozma pour diriger ce pays en son absence, promettant de revenir aider Oz dans ses plus noirs moments.

Frex had a notion that she wasn't sorry to see him go off from time to time, so that she could be glad to see him come back.

In every parting there comes a moment when the beloved is already no longer with us.

She no longer existed.

Era el desvarieig produït per l'absència d'una il·lusió sense retorn, la lassitud que deixen els fets acomplerts, el dolor, en fi, que promou la interrupció de tot moviment acostumat, la sobtada cessació d'una vibració perllongada.

L'amour, peu à peu, s'éteignit par l'absence, le regret s'étouffa sous l'habitude ; et cette lueur d'incendie qui empourprait son ciel pâle se couvrit de plus d'ombre et s'effaça par degrés.

El amor fue extinguiéndose poco a poco con la ausencia, bajo la costumbre se ahogó la pena; y aquel resplandor de incendio que teñía de púrpura su pálido cielo se cubrió de más sombra y se difuminó gradualmente

All that sultry May evening I danced physically with Christie, but in spirit with Tina. That special duality of the Davenports, of being able to haunt in absence, was so manifestly strong that several times I only saved myself by the sheerest miracle from calling the girl in the pale primrose dress by the wrong name.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

Common sense in reflecting on these subjects, I assured my friend with some warmth, is merely a stupid absence of imagination and mental flexibility.

Is she always elusive?" "Her whole life's a no-show.

Intreurig is deze avond, want ik ga weg en kom niet meer terug.

To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.

We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution.

The curious sterility of utopias comes from the absence within them of any scope for initiative, any room for plurality.

The happiness achieved in isolation from the world and enjoyed within the confines of one's own private existence can never be anything but the famous "absence of pain," a definition on which all variations of consistent sensualism must agree.

The absence of a political hierarchy in the nation-state and the victory of equality rendered 'society secretly more hierarchical as it became outwardly more democratic.

It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.

It's been tough for me being away from the game.

My father wasn't around much. He made mistakes, but he had a very tough road.

When my grandfather died, I was on tour, and I didn't go to the funeral. I never got to say goodbye, and this is one of the problems of being in a rock band is that you're away, and your loved ones die, and you can't even see them.

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.