Quotes About Absence

Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of The Natural History of Iceland, from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus: "Ch. LXXII. Concerning snakes. There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island."

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

A more persuasive factor possibly explaining both intra- and extra-Islamic conflict is the absence of one or more core states in Islam.

having not for some days been in the streets; but now how few people I see, and those looking like people that had taken leave of the world.

dare avouch46 to all that know God, that the saints know not the length and largeness of the sweet earnest,47 and of the sweet green sheaves before the harvest, that might be had on this side of the water, if we should take more pains: and that we all go to heaven with less earnest and lighter purses of the hoped for sum than otherwise we might do, if we took more pains to win further in upon Christ in this pilgrimage of our absence from Him.

Votre mari n'est pas là madame Eiffel - Non il est allé faire une tour.

Rachel ain't here. Not that she would wanna talk to you anyhows, you slimy

How it can be, that Ice Cream ain't existing anywhere. Will be no me to know that I ain't there.

How it can be, that Ice Cream ain't existing anywhere. Will be no me to know I ain't there.

aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana; dengan kata yang tak sempat diucapkan kayu kepada api yang menjadikannya abu aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana; dengan isyarat yang tak sempat disampaikan awan kepada hujan yang menjadikannya tiada

Reminded me of Anaktoria, who is gone. I would rather see her lovely step and the motion of light on her face than chariots of Lydians or ranks of footsoldiers in arms.

What an odd idea, really, to know that someone so very necessary in your life was lost to you and couldn't be called back.

She would miss him for the rest of her life.

Standing fur-to-fur, five foxes wailed, and the call sang of the absence that was theirs alone and of all the losses in the world. And it sang of the joy that remained.

Brock, would be leaving their phones at home. Which sounded like a particularly torturous circle of hell.

In Warsaw in Poland Half the world away, The one I love best of all Thought of me to-day; I know, for I went Winged as a bird, In the wide flowing wind His own voice I heard; His arms were round me In a ferny place, I looked in the pool And there was his face– But now it is night And the cold stars say: 'Warsaw in Poland Is half the world away.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

Saying she should be the one I see every time that I'm here, but when am I really even here?

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.