Quotes About Absence

Loss. A known absence. If you didn't know it, it would be nothing, which it is, of course, a nothing of another kind, as acutely felt as a blister, but a tumult, too, in the region of the heart and lungs, an emptiness with a name: You

Very simply, for the mind, absence can be a catalyst for presence.

We had been pulled apart by absence, but that same absence had shackled us together for life.

The place where I am is missing from my view. It's like that for everybody. We don't see ourselves in the picture, do we? It's a kind of hole.

The page can resurrect what's lost and what's dead, what's not there anymore and what was never there.

How many other are there? I thought. People, things, seen and then forgotten, leaving nothing behind them, not even the knowledge that they're missing.

I dote on his very absence.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love." from "Memoriam

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

You are so near to my thoughts and my heart yet so far from my body and my arms... I once loved the whole world because you were in it.

Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

Love does not end when we don't see each other.

I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there.

Hate can only flourish where love is absent.

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

How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.