Quotes About Absence

There were no tourists. Beer was illegal. There was only government television and no television on Thursdays or in the summer.

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.

I'm leaving on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again

My witness is the empty sky.

You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.

Where were you when I undressed and told the tales of my day?Where were youwhenI was silent with God in prandial pray?Where were youwhen I recited love poems as I lay?Where were you?

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.

They were good friends, weren't they? The best of friends. She ought to be able to walk into his room and ask him the reason for his absence this evening—and the reason for his absence from her bed. But she couldn't, because it was all a sham, their friendship, at least on her part, a disguise for her true feelings, an awful solace for not being his one and only. A thing without wings.

Miss Charlotte was often and spectacularly silent. But her silence was that of the woods and hills, a natural absence of speech. The maharani's, on the other hand, made Mrs. Watson think of the walled forts of Jaipur, a silence that watched and hid.

I wonder now how we got by when you weren't here." "I have no doubt the devastation was widespread, the suffering universal." "Indeed, it was the Dark Ages in the annals of Mrs. Dawlish's house. Ignorance was thick on the ground, and unenlkghtenment befogged all the windows.

felt empty, just as they did when Dani climbed out of them

But that's a way to go on loving--a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in the state of missing, is sometimes the simplest way to preserve love. [p. 56]

From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.

I did not know it at the time, but we would never see Jegan again.

God is not in his office.

Absence makes the heart grows fonder, doesn't it?

It was the first of many times he would try to remember her face, the forst of many times he would look for someone and not see them- search for someone whose absence defined him.

I would give everything, even memory—especially memory—if I could hold Leo again. The weight of his absence is the weight of the entire world. I

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

You can decorate absence however you want- but your still gonna feel what's missing.

It is strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.

Far away from non-existent landmarks; there are no more wars.