Quotes About Absence

I don't actually live here, Reggie said. Who does live here then? Ms. MacDonald, except that she doesn't because she's dead. Everyone's dead. I'm not, Jackson said. You're not.

She was real and she was dead. And she was out there somewhere.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead . . .

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.

As I was going up the stair I met a man who wan't there He wasn't there again today Oh I wish he'd go away!

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone.

That man has no shadow.

Dead men have no victory.

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay?

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.