Quotes About Absence

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was dead wrong. It's the absence of fear that we should fear.

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.

Nic is absent, only his shell remains. I have been afraid—terrified—to lose Nic, but I have lost him. In the past, I tried to imagine the unimaginable and I tried to imagine bearing the unbearable. I imagined losing Nic by overdose or accident, but now I comprehend that I have already lost him. Today, at least, he is lost.

you have nothing

By definition, soul evades the cage of definition. It is the indefinable essence of a person's spirit and being. It can never be touched and yet the merest hint of its absence causes immediate distress.

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.

Always remember that night is the absence of light rather than the presence of darkness

I stepped closer still. He closed his eyes again and covered my hand with his own. 'You smell of violets. You always smell of violets,' he said. 'You've no idea how many times I have walked these moors and smelled them and thought you were near. On and on I walked, following the scent of you, and you were never there. When I saw you in the hall tonight, I thought I had finally gone mad.

It is not the presence of despair that ails you, but the absence of hope.

The absence of 'criticism' is not Appreciation!!!

Everything is nothing.

Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Cuesta comprender que ya no exista quien ha existido.

Se la echaría en falta, por costumbre más que por aflicción

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

The house, despite its eerie absence of absent things, was not a comfortable place, and there was nothing compelling her to be here.

Each … breeze," he says, watching the ripple of the bright, unfurling leaves, "will be me, missing. You." Smiling

When timeless moments solicit you, accept the invitation. Go deep within it, until you find yourself in your absence.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.