Quotes About Absence

Jack wrote his mother how things couldn't proceed in New York in Pierpont's absence.

They say there's peace if you can relinquish desire. For me desire's absence has only ever left a dull persistent ache.

At that moment I knew I would miss her forever. I felt empty. I had lost something I never knew I had.

empty place opposite with eyes too

ABOUT JOE. Wednesday morning. He'd been dead

Like an AWOL soldier saying goodbye to his

When I woke in the dark I was smiling - it's a happy thing to brace for a visit from old friend Envy who then for some reason never shows up.

I regret I can't make the meeting today

At the University of Bologna, there was another bizarre twist on what is the norm today: students fined their professors for unexcused absence or tardiness, or for not answering difficult questions.

Most of all it has taught me to appreciate the absence of bad luck, the absence of events that might have brought us down, and the absence of the disease, war, famine, and accident that have not—or have not yet—befallen us.

appreciate the absence of bad luck, the absence of events that might have brought us down, and the absence of the disease, war, famine, and accident that have not—or have not yet—befallen us.

We all need the pendulum swing of snatching spaces of solitude and serving tables of sociability. In fact, the more plugged in and connected we are, the more we need to unplug and disconnect. A world of presence needs a time of absence.

You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead -- There were no birds to fly.

You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself.

VISITING THE TAOIST PRIEST DAI TIANSHAN, BUT NOT FINDING HIM A dog's bark amid the water's sound, Peach blossom that's made thicker by the rain. Deep in the trees, I sometimes see a deer, And at the stream I hear no noonday bell. Wild bamboo divides the green mist, A flying spring hangs from the jasper peak. No-one knows the place to which he's gone, Sadly, I lean on two or three pines.

She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.

Look, I know this seems a little half-assed...' 'No, dude. I'd be thrilled if this plan were half-assed. This is, like, no-assed.' 'You're right. It's the most no-assed thing I've ever done in my life.

Absence is a curious thing. When friends are absent, they seem to loom ever larger, till the lack of them is all one can feel.

He imagined that one day he'd hear that his parents were gone and feel only a vague sense of loss. How could you mourn something you'd never really had?

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.