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Quotes About Absence

Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.
~ Alan Furst, Mission to Paris
Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.
~ Graham Greene
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.
~ J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal
Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.
~ Hans Koning
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
~ Baruch Spinoza
SOME PEOPLE SIMPLY DO NOT EXIST ANYMORE. GET USED TO IT. QUESTION MARK.
~ Amy King, The Good Campaign
This world does not exist to you when you are missing.
~ Debasish Mridha
difference, distance, absence and seperation lie 'at the heart' of meaning, being and reality
~ Maggie MacLure
Absolute equals nothingness.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
I can't believe I'm here, sitting with all my friends.There's No-one!And there's Nobody!My only two, and best true friends.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
God endlessly fails to extend his blessings. That is because he no longer sits on the throne.
~ Lionel Suggs
Cameron Conaway, Bonemeal
~ What's not there is.
My darling I still love you, no matter that you're gone.You'll always be with me, forever and ever more.
~ Anthony T Hincks
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
~ W.S. Merwin
The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.
~ Anne Bancroft
The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.
~ Faiz Ahmad Faiz
I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.
~ Emma Bonino
What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
~ Jay Alan Sekulow
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
~ Sallust
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.
~ Bayard Rustin
I disappeared in her and she, wondering where I went, left.
~ Will Eno
It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.
~ Will Schwalbe