Quotes About Absence

I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.

Day of Absence is a tradition at Evergreen.

Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain.

I do love my dad, we have a great relationship now but there were years when he was absent and it was my mum that raised me.

An' this house just ain't no home, Anytime she goes away.

On the morrow of my wedding we shall be parted for a long time; but, Daniel, you are of stuff to understand me. Friendship can subsist in the absence of the friend.

it is God without mankind

I see the enormous value of a mother's presence because I live everyday with its absence.

Whether she actually would have flown in to act as baby nurse or mailed me cotton balls and calamine lotion if she were alive isn't really the issue. It's the fact that I can't ask her for these things that makes me miss her all over again.

Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.

high spirits and overflowing joy making the absence of love known.

As I was walking up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd go away.

As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away.

Now he was only a short day's ride from the capital and worried about what he would find. Akiko, the elder of his two sisters, had married an official during his absence and moved away, but Yoshiko was still at home. He tried to imagine his mother ill, her fierce strength gone, and

Molly wasn't hope then, of course, and i can't help hating her for not being there.

And we can't take absence of evidence as evidence of absence.

There is no medicine to be found for a life which has fled.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

No colour comes after black.

Presence and Absence A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

Presencia y Ausencia Cierta persona puede tener, como dices, una maravillosa presencia; no lo sé. Lo que sí sé es que tiene una ausencia perfectamente encantadora

Those who are absent, by its means become present: correspondence is the consolation of life. —VOLTAIRE, Philosophical Dictionary

Our hours in love have wings in absence, crutches.

He will be there when I be not.