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Quotes About Absence

God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half.
~ Robert Frost
Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.
~ Simon Mawer
Hell is God's Absence.
~ Edmund White
So mothers have God's license to be missed.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God, I wish you could have been there.
~ J. D. Salinger
God might not be dead, but he's sure as hell missing in action.
~ Quentin R. Bufogle
God's only excuse is that he does not exist
~ Stendhal
The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one's kashays are gone, then he becomes the 'owner' of the whole universe.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you.
~ Nizar Qabbani
The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.
~ Kerry Packer
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
~ Leonard Cohen
Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.
~ Helen Mirren
My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.
~ Jim Hamilton
I do not expect to see home again.
~ Edward Snowden
Anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls and so on.
~ Ann Coulter
I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.
~ William Shakespeare
The great thing about the dead, they make space.
~ John Updike
An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.
~ Alcibiades
I'm so lost without you. Feeling lonely, scared & cold. I'm so lost without you. Tell me baby, when are you coming home?
~ Roch Voisine
To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.
~ Hal Borland
Why don't I watch the ocean?My lover's gone.No earthly ships will ever bring him home againbring him home again.
~ Dido Armstrong
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.
~ Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.
~ Suzanne Collins