622 Quotes About Absence

She felt it when she woke, not a presence but an absence.

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

Loss.A known absence.If you didn't know it,it would be nothing, which it is, of course,a nothing of another kind,as acutely felt as a blister,but a tumult, too, in the region of the heart and lungs, an emptiness with a name: You

You know when you’re on a train at a station and there’s another train opposite and the other train starts moving and there’s that utterly convincing illusion that it’s your train that is moving and you feel a bit disorientated when you realise you’re still standing still. That’s what my life has been like since Freddie left.

I was also caught by absence in all its forms.

The real essence of your distinctive footprints may least be felt in your presence and much more in your absence

Sometimes absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. Sometimes it just makes the heart hurt.

A great measure of the real value of the things we have is how we feel when such things become scarce and absent in our lives