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absence is the loudest thing a missing person ever says
means Absence is the state of being away or not present, or the lack of something that ought to be there.
from From Latin 'absentia,' built on 'absens'—the present participle of 'abesse,' "to be away." Break it down and you get 'ab-' (away from) plus 'esse' (to be): literally "a being-away." It drifted into English through Old French 'absence' in the late Middle Ages, carrying that same quiet weight of someone who simply is not here.
- brain trick
- missing teeth still feel present for years afterward
- physics void
- perfect vacuum still buzzes with quantum particle activity
- music gap
- the silence between notes makes the melody
- phantom limb
- amputees feel itches in hands they no longer have
- old saying
- absence-makes-the-heart line dates to 1602 poetry
for instance
marie curie's empty seat — polish scientist's chair left vacant at sorbonne for decades after her death in 1934
the missing 11th planet — pluto declassified in 2006, leaving a gap in our solar system's roster