Quotes About Absences

The marriage seemed to flourish on Father's extended absences. " Ragtime

If it goes on like this and we can't compensate for the things that get lost, the island will soon be nothing but absences and holes, and when it's completely hollowed out, we'll all disappear without a trace. Don't you ever feel that way?

un tipo con una extraña predisposición a sobrevivir un poeta latinoamericano que al llegar la noche se echa en su jergón y sueña un sueño maravilloso que atraviesa países y años un sueño maravilloso que atraviesa enfermedades y ausencias

All I ask the haters--and I, too, am one--is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consider bringing it to bear on poems, where it will be deepened, not dispelled, and where, by creating a place for possibility and present absences (like unheard melodies), it might come to resemble love.

I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.

Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.

their absences would last until the child was old enough to attempt the crossing, or until the relative was exhausted enough to return, or on occasion, quite often, forever, because life and its end are unpredictable, especially at a distance, where death seems to operate with such whimsical aim.

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included.

Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.

Only absences were fully shared.

At Bologna, the students held control of their university, hired and fired professors, fined them for unexcused absences or lateness, for wandering from their subject, and for dodging difficult questions.