Quotes About Absence

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir.

The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Where were you when my heart was breaking? Will you scream out my name when I am dead and gone?

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.

Two people can be in the same room and still be gone.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

In the middle of the kitchen table was an empty birdcage, the metal door ajar. A feeling of deep melancholy washed over her, the empty cage somehow seeming symbolic of Eddie Berlin's life. ~0~

I get very nervous about not being around the office.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.

When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

There is no doubt that not having Harry Kane and Son Heung-min will have an impact on your team.

But the pain of the no more outweighs the gratitude of the once was. Will it always be so? I didn't know how much I loved him until he was gone. Is love like that?