Quotes About Absence

Peace and love is the absence of religion in the presence of God.

All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.

Evil is the absence of God.

The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.

Can you say something about nothing?

Then you think there is no God? No, I think there quite probably is one. Then why? … Mustapha Mond checked him. But he manifests himself in different ways to different men. In premodern times he manifested himself as the being that's described in these books. Now … How does he manifest himself now? asked the Savage. Well, he manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren't there at all.

He took nobody by surprise; there was nobody to take.

Shut lips, sleeping faces, Every stopped machine, The dumb and littered places Where crowds have been:. All silences rejoice, Weep (loudly or low), Speak-but with the voice Of whom, I do not know.

We need not know a thing in order to be able to investigate and control it. Where knowledge is absent—and in an absolute sense we can know nothing—a vague working hypothesis is quite enough for all practical and even philosophical purposes.

How does he manifest himself now?" asked the Savage. "Well, he manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren't there at all.

Words expressing desire may be more moving than the presence of the desired person.

God's best joke, so far as he himself was concerned, was not being there. Simply not there. Neither God nor the devil. For if the devil had been there, God would have been there too. All that was there was the memory of a sordid disgusting stupidity and now an enormous knockabout. First an affair of dust-bins and then a farce. But that was what the devil really was: the spirit of dust-bins. And God? God in that case would be simply the absence of dust-bins.

Then you think there is no God?" "No, I think there quite probably is one." "Then why? …" Mustapha Mond checked him. "But he manifests himself in different ways to different men. In premodern times he manifested himself as the being that's described in these books. Now …" "How does he manifest himself now?" asked the Savage. "Well, he manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren't there at all.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

Home is where somebody notices your absence.

Quel che aveva capito, con certezza assoluta, era che vivere senza di lui sarebbe stato, per sempre, la sua occupazione fondamentale, e che da quel momento le cose avrebbero avuto ogni volta un'ombra, per lei, un'ombra in più, perfino nel buio, e forse soprattutto nel buio.

There are people who die and, with all due respect, you don't lose anything. But he was one of those that when they're gone you feel it. As if the whole world had become, from one day to the next, a little heavier.

Nunca oí ni siquiera su voz -Es un dolor extraño. Quedo. -Morir de nostalgia por algo que no vivirás jamás.

Ali on je bio od onih koji se najviše osjete kada nisu tu.

You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right?

Death is always death, that is oblivion, resting, absence of life, as well as pain.

from that, there was nothing.

My goddesses! You vanished faces! Oh, hearken to my woeful call: Have other maidens gained your places, Yet not replaced you after all? (12)