Physical Absence Quotes

I went to university for three years, but I wasn't in Ottawa for three years.

The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.

I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.

The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.

When you lack a certain vitality in the film business, there's no hiding it. It's like you've had your limb chopped off. How do you hide the fact that you're missing an arm?

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.