You can miss a person you've never known.
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.
At first, not having Mina with us made us all feel lonely, and there was an emptiness without her. However, Mina is trying her best to participate, so even when she's not with us in person, she's still always with us in spirit.
We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.
Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?
Listening to something without being present is different from being there in the flesh.
Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.
In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave.
But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.
The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
