Quotes About Absence

It was all very well to talk of absence making the heart grow fonder, but "out of sight, out of mind" might be just as true a truism. He hadn't

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

The unhappy person is one who has his ideal, the content of his life, the fullness of his consciousness, the essence of his being, in some manner outside of himself. The unhappy man is always absent from himself, never present to himself. But one can be absent, obviously, either in the past or in the future. This adequately circumscribes the entire territory of the unhappy consciousness.

We tend not to notice what is not there when often absence is the more vital thing.

Most interesting things in our lives happens in our absence

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

I learned that love is for the most part absent and, when it appears, is usually fitful, fleeting, and finally unsatisfactory. I learned that the communities men build are based on the oppression of the many by the few, and I did not understand

learning the knack of disconnecting her sense of smell, until she could switch it off like a radio and in the bland silence of its absence could drown in the sound of Nazarébaddoor's hypnotic voice without having her reverie interrupted by the scent of sheep shit or Nazarébaddoor's own frequent and extraordinary buffalo farts.

A maior parte das coisas que importam na nossa vida acontece na nossa ausência.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence:

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure.

he is anxious to know how you have been employed during your long absence from him, how you have been treated by your persecutors, and if they have conducted themselves towards you with all the deference due to your rank. Finally, he is anxious to see if you have been fortunate enough to escape the bad moral influence to which you have been exposed, and which is infinitely more to be dreaded than any physical suffering;

remember that it is the dead alone with whom we are not likely to meet again on this earth.

Birinin yokluÄŸunun kederi, diÄŸerinin yokluÄŸunun sevincini dengeliyordu.

and left the table, to return a few moments later

Nothing is more striking to an European traveller in the United States than the absence of what we term the Government, or the Administration.

There is no sun.

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

He is gone and all we have is this world, here and now.

Lately, she's been wondering if perhaps when the living become the dead they leave an empty space behind, a hollow no one else can fill.

I would watch his footprints when he went and mourn him before he was gone.

EITHER THE WIND kept them all away or the entire population took to heart the notion that the beaches were closed after Labor Day. In