Ken Kesey Quotes

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"

A decade is a very long time to be away from somebody.

Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back.

You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.

The return makes one love the farewell.

My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.

My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parents and my father's doctor had all decided it was wiser for me to go to South America than to stay home and see Papa waste away. For a long time, I felt an enormous sense of guilt about having left my father's side when he was so sick.

Spending so much time on the road is the biggest challenge for me with WWE. I've missed weddings and births. I've spent a lot of time away from my friends and family for so many years. That part is really hard.

I don't like being away from home for a long period of time.

I don't ever enjoy time away from the game. But it does make you appreciate what you have.

Gone for a while Hoping, always, to return If you will let me

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,-not dead, but gone before,- He gathers round him.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

Now Spring returns; but not to me returns.

I'm going away," he said. "And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because...." "Don't say anything," Fatima interrupted. "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.