Quotes About Absence

also the constituents of his memory: this tittle-tattle enlightened me as to the incalculable proportions of absence and presence of mind, of recollection and forgetfulness which go to form the human intelligence;

How many times in the course of my life reality had disappointed me because at the moment when I perceived it, my imagination, which was my only means of enjoying beauty, could not be applied to it by virtue of the inevitable law which only allows us to imagine that which is absent.

For the instinct of imitation and absence of courage govern society and the mob alike.

En la ausencia de Dios, no nos queda otra cosa que vivir el doble, como robándole bocanadas a la muerte. Asentí.

If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.

He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.

There is so much silence between the words, you say. You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse. You say, I have too much white clothing. You start to hum. Several hundred years ago this could have been mysticism or heresy. It isnt now. Outside there are sirens. Someones been run over. The century grinds on.

Goodnight nobody. Goodnight mush.

I think sometimes the biggest influence isn't what's present in your life, but what's absent. Those missing pieces that shape you and change you, the silences that are louder than the noise.

sometimes the biggest influence isn't what's present in your life, but what's absent. Those missing pieces that shape you and change you, the silences that are louder than the noise.

She would hang a sign in the restaurant window--Owt to luntsch. Bee bak in a whale. For she could not spell either.

Results have proved that minute setting forth of doctrine and theological distinctions are not only non-essential but their absence is strongly conducive to the spirituality of the Church of God, and the success of its work.

Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you.

Friends, though absent, are still present.

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.

Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

If I cry will you ever wipe away my tears, if I become weak will you still be there to keep me stronger, when I'm about to lose hope will you be there to restore my faith, when I feel lonely will you hold me tight and never let go. These are what I keep asking myself everyday because of pain I feel of your absence.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.