Quotes About Absence

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

Christianity does not look on this world as one which God very occasionally invades; it looks on it as a world from which he is never absent.

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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair

His wit invites you by his looks to come,But when you knock it never is at home.

Absence of occupation is not rest,A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

At its purest, Jainism is almost an atheistic religion, and the much venerated images of the Tirthankaras in temples represent not so much a divine presence as a profound divine absence. I

For a while, every day, even though the snow was piled and the sky dead and the winter wind was blowing, I watched for my aunt to come again and bring me a book like my ma'd said she would. She never came.

Grace is rhwe absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incogruity.

His father had been murdered fifteen hundred miles away. He was just gone. He became the emptiness of the cabin, and that's how Ren had thought of death. Emptiness. A grabbing at air. A conversation stopped in mid-sentence. A body from which the soul had simply departed.

Meloux had never seen his own son. Never carried him on his shoulders or held him when he cried. Never felt the small boy's breath, warm and sweet smelling, break against his face. Never knew the pleasures of being for his son the slayer of monsters imagined in the night.

The most striking aspect of the "religious revival" of the 1950s, after all, had been the absence of devotion. Going to church then was more a social than a religious act. In the late sixties faith was expressed by not going to church.

You love something that ain't there and then you start hating what is there, and that's hell.

My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.

Do you know what I miss most about Rosemary? Simply knowing she was there.

Après leur dernier échange, il était parti lentement. Sans faire de bruit. Aussi discret qu'un point-virgule dans un roman de huit cents pages.

Por la tarde encendió el teléfono después de cada clase, pero seguía sin llegarle nada, ni la mínima respuesta; la misma agresividad en forma de ausencia.

No vives solo, sino con una ausencia.

On ne vit pas seul mais avec une absence.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

one of the most effective ways for a system of authority to tout its virtues is not to speak of them directly, but to create a particularly vivid image of their absolute negation—of what it claims life would be like in the total absence of, say, patriarchal authority, or capitalism, or the state.

Take it from me, the best way to be appreciated somewhere is to not be there, you get me?

In perennial Absence you see mystery, and in perennial Presence you see appearance. Though the two are one and the same, once they arise, they differ in name.