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Quotes About Absence

As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.
~ Eavan Boland
Britain is the home of economic freedom, with liberty guaranteed by the independence of our state institutions, and an absence of corruption assured by transparency.
~ Liz Truss
When she walks away for even a short time, I can't wait for her return. If she were never to return, nothing else would matter.
~ Sister Souljah
My mom's been married three times my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.
~ Skeet Ulrich
She is awake. Again she thinks about fear. Until then, she had not been aware of fear, she had been convinced that she did not feel fear, not even when they had taken the group of men out from the gym, or when she had heard the burst of gunfire. She listens. She knows now that fear is the absence of all emotion, it is emptiness, it is as if your whole body is drained of blood all at once.
~ Slavenka Drakuli?
un jour contraints de consommer un monde dans le quel nous aurons été absents pendant trop longtemps
~ Sony Labou Tansi
Andrej thought about it - the notion that the world was riddled with holes where certain people and animals were meant to be, but weren't.
~ Sonya Hartnett
She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Was there someone absent from the table of creation?
~ Sorin Cerin
May you know that absence is full of tender presence and nothing is ever lost or forgotten.
~ Spike Gillespie
If a tear fell from my eyes, Each time I wished you were with me, I would have an ocean shore outside my door.
~ Stacey Chillemi
And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.
~ Stacy Schiff
Yapacak, duyacak, görecek hiçbir ÅŸey yoktu, her yerde ve sürekli hiçlikle çevriliydi insan, boyuttan ve zamandan tümüyle yoksun, boÅŸlukta.
~ Stefan Zweig
Nada se nos hizo, sólo que se nos situó dentro de la nada absoluta, porque, según es notorio, ninguna cosa del mundo ejerce tanta presión sobre el alma humana como la nada.
~ Stefan Zweig
Ich wünschte, dass ich Ihnen ein wenig fehlte. (Briefe an Lotte Zweig)
~ Stefan Zweig
I felt a great fear rise up in my heart: for what should my world be, after all, without Lord Harold in it?
~ Stephanie Barron
Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.
~ Stephanie Laurens
Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.
~ Stephanie Laurens
Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.
~ John Hagelin
The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.
~ Stephen Chbosky
The truth is there's so many great TV shows out there now that none of us take absence of awards personally. The most important feedback is the feedback we get from the fans.
~ Gale Anne Hurd
The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme.
~ Prince William of Hesse-Kassel
Well the truth is, everybody, when they die, leaves a void that cannot be filled.
~ Tilda Swinton
Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to.
~ Mamur Mustapha