Quotes About Absence

The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

If they don't appreciate your presence, they may never recognize your absence.

There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

my uncle died.and i don't feel sad because he died.but i felt so sad when i realize that i will never see him alive again in my whole life.

Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.

My experience is that the absence of firm prior resolve results in regular rationalization.

Ordinary exploration begins in the juiciest sort of indecision, in deliberate, then routine fits of absence of mind... Exploring requires the cloak of invisibility bicyclists and walkers take for granted.

Just the absence of loneliness. Thats love enough.

What it would be like to simply disappear into the blackness, to float forever in silence and nothingness.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

I]t invites us to think by not thinking for us; this is not to be dismissed as an absence of thought (or 'moral tone' for that matter), but as an absence full of potential presence, which the reader is invited to actively produce.

Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost.

Departure in the afternoon is depressing to those who are left. The day is so dominated by the one who has gone and, although only half-done, must be got through with that particular shadow lying over it.

It is true she liked him most when he wasn't there, but then she usually liked everybody most when they weren't there.

Loneliness is an empty space, a hole that cannot be filled. Loneliness is the weather side of the quarterdeck and a vacant captain's cabin. It's the sea when I can't look at it through your eyes. It's the wind when I can't hear it with your ears. It's salt when I can't taste it on your lips.

There's no statute of limitations on missing someone. I'm sure there are still times when it feels like only yesterday." It

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

A city one loves exists at no matter what distance, and its symphony is sometimes heard more clearly when one is away, as the music of an orchestra is more lucid to an audience that it sounds to the performers on the stage.

One is impelled to glance across the table, and since you went away I have done that so often that my eyes must have worn some varnish from the empty chair.

En l'absence de grands conflits armés, l'incarcération de masse constitue le programme social le plus assidûment appliqué par les gouvernements de notre époque.

He couldn't imagine how he had lived without her for seven years. She was like sunlight. Like food and drink.

God, I've missed you so much

A la memoria de mi padre, que nunca quiso tenerme tan lejos.