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Quotes About Absence

Engels could not prevent himself from occasionally unveiling the truth of what was in his mind: "We therefore reject every attempt to impose on us any moral dogma what-ever...."16 In other words, Communism undertakes to replace Judaic-Christian morals with a complete absence of morals.
~ Unknown
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
~ W. S. Merwin
You came back to us in a dream and we were not here.
~ W. S. Merwin
Where there is nothing, there is God.
~ W.B. Yeats
What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?
~ W.H. Auden
I have no way of telling what I miss I am the only one who misses it
~ W.S. Merwin
In the cities the birds are forgotten among other things but then one could say that the cities are made of absences of what disappeared so they could be there
~ W.S. Merwin
Seperation Your absence has gone trough me like thread trough a needle. Everything I do is stiched with it's color.
~ W.S. Merwin
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
~ W.S. Merwin
part memory part distance remaining mine in the ways that I learn to miss you
~ W.S. Merwin
You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us
~ W.S. Merwin
When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over.
~ Unknown
The presence of confidence can make an unable man appear able. While its absence can make an able man appear unable.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when I was 16 out of the blue.
~ Gerard Butler
I was desperate to discover what nothing felt like. It was the absence of something that attracted me. It was the start. Everything important originated with nothingness.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Grief is love turned into an eternal missing
~ Rosamund Lupton, Sister
Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.
~ Unknown
Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.
~ Jeff Goldblum
I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
~ John Lydon
The problem with death is absence
~ Roger Rosenblatt
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska
There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.
~ Ben Hecht
I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.
~ Graham Greene