Quotes About Absence And Missing Someone

#1. Whoever thought up the phrase 'Absence makes the heart grow founder' was an idiot.
Absence makes a bitch go crazy.
-Elli, While Shea is Away

Toni Aleo

#2. In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

Ben Jonson

#3. I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of the human heart rendered by the absence of a mother and father.

Karen White

#4. Your absence has gone through me

W.S. Merwin

#5. How can you know what is missing if you've never met it? You must know of something's existence before you can notice its absence.

E.L. Konigsburg

#6. I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside.

Anthony Liccione

#7. I'm still missing you. Well I guess that I have, I guess that I have never really had you.

Tegan Quin

#8. I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.

Carrie Fisher

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

Siobhan Vivian

#10. Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

Jodi Picoult

#11. We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

Gerald Brenan

#12. Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
Poetic Verse by

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#13. People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.

Anne Tyler

#14. If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

Heloise D'Argenteuil

#15. She was a very beautiful person who was missing something very ugly. Her winnings were the absence of something, and this quality hung around her.

Miranda July

#16. Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.

Joyce Rachelle

#17. I just wanted to tell you, how beautiful you were; that day, that night, that life.

Anthony Liccione

#18. Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

John Dryden

#19. Hurry is a thief, pure and simple. And sometimes when we complain about the absence of certain things in our lives, we really aren't missing those things at all - rather, we just don't notice them when they're there because we fly right by them on our way to something else.

Tom Walsh

#20. You said, "Ellie, this is the truth, everybody leaves. Everybody." I was just seven, and when I reached for you, you were death and absence and missing take you. You were where bad husbands disappear to. And you were whispering. "Just ask them.

Carmen Rodrigues

#21. If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

M. Scott Peck

#22. There is a hole in the heart called "absence". You live in it my dear.

Malak El Halabi

#23. His absence is so big it's like he's there.

Patrick Ness

#24. How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered

Kristin Cashore

#25. In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

Mark Strand

#26. You tasted like fire
And I miss that.
So, at times
I drank a little.
And at times,
I drank too much.
But I only drank
Till it burned me enough.

Saiber

#27. You won't remember what belongs there. You will only feel the ache of absence & know something unnamable is missing

Juliann Garey

#28. Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it's own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.

Coco J. Ginger

#29. It is strange that an absence can feel like presence. A missing so complete that if it were to go away, I would turn around, stunned, to see that the room is empty after all when before it had something.

Ally Condie

#30. If you can open your mouth to say; I love you! To someone without taking such person(s) as your priority, even with your gifts and money, something more important than your freebie is missing out!

Michael Bassey Johnson

#31. Angles from their former lofty positions in the sky. Their absence made everything look different, like a fresh haircut exposing a band of untanned skin on a forehead. Even from deep inside the kitchen, Luke could tell the trees were missing because everything was brighter, more open. Scarier.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#32. I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Alyson Noel

#33. If everything else were still the same, he'd have felt Zee's absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had been.

Rebecca Makkai

#34. The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges us

Francine Noel

#35. Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

Flannery O'Connor

#36. Absence is more,
thorny on the soul,
than however dulcet,
presence can be.
Apparently,
I have missed you,
more than,
I have ever loved you.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber