Quotes About Absence

Hoi, dit is Tirza. Ik ben er even niet, maar laat maar een leuk bericht achter

But here God didn't come. We were all on our own.

The physical course of nature does not merely fail to indicate design, it seems loudly to proclaim its absence.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Gangs are born of a lethal absence of hope, and hope has an address: 130 W. Bruno St. in Los Angeles, CA 90012.

There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent absence?

What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty.

There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all.

Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that God's voice makes in a world that has explained him away. In such a world, I suspect that maybe God speaks to us most clearly through his silence, his absence, so that we know him best through our missing him.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that he had risen from the dead was not the absence of his corpse but his living presence. And so it has been ever since.

It is out of the absence of God that God makes himself present

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

My loneliness is not By the presence or absence of people; On the contrary, I hate who steals my loneliness, Without, in exchange, offer me a real company

The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future, without condemnation or selection, in a state of absolute lightness, and in the finished conviction that there is no difference therefore between the instant and eternity.

how well Stoicism hides what one does not possess!);

But sleep was busy elsewhere

Everyone called it losing Mother, but she wasn't lost. She was gone, and no matter where I went—another town, another country, Fairyland, or Gnome Caverns—I wouldn't find her.

Other people don't exist when you're not with them.

We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.