James Monroe Quotes

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.

I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

I am sorry I could not see my father.

Being away from the game took a toll on my heart.

Do i really want him dead? What i want... what i want is to have him back.

She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

Goodbye, my love, my life. Goodbye, goodbye.

If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.

Is not absence death to those who love?

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.

I'll miss you forever.' Blake - Devil To Pay

It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell.

I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.

How do you say goodbye to someone who isn't exactly gone.

Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

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Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again

I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy...Rest Well. Gone Too Soon...we'll miss you!!