Quotes About Absence

Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity

I was perhaps lucky to be born in a single-parent home where my mother, Shirin Mohammed Ali, was the sole figure I revered. My father's absence in my life in my formative years exposed me to only one person, who was my source of learning the lessons of life. So to me, listening to a woman and her worldly view is almost automatic.

The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence.

I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a lot of time out of school.

The worst thing was being in the car and hearing someone else do your show. Three records in, 'She's still not here.' Four records in, 'She's still not here.'

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

Silence can be a very powerful tool. Sometimes it's more powerful to leave you with nothing.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

I miss her face, its beauty, and its beauty lost.

How ever did I pass the time before I knew you? I think of that past time as now I pass each passing day in lonely sorrow, lacking you.

Vad brydde han sig om att leva, när inte den lilla flickan kom tillbaka?

On se souvient de rien, et puisqu'on oublie tout, rien c'est bien mieux que tout.

for he saw in Elizabeth's eyes a kind of darkness; a kind of absence-as if her soul had taken leave, so that compassion and warmth could not interfere.

We think words bring us close to people when they're gone but they're a comfort, not a substitute. Words can summon a memory but absence has no cure.

Some postdivorce statistics: * James saw the children 75 percent less than before. * He missed 85 percent of their afterschool woes. * He was absent for 99 percent of their family dinners. Screw statistics. ONe hundred percent of Charlotte's marriage had ended in divorce, and for her, that was the only number that meant anything at all.

Today I keep thinking of all the people who have left and never returned — my brothers, Khan Tegus, our guards, this entire city. What a strange, dark world that swallows people whole.

out of her sight.

But if feels as if he's not here— though he's here, it feels as if, for me, there's no one there

And so he went into another world—this world, where I do not see or hear him

Sleep and dream—but not of his return.

It's so quiet, and empty, when he's left. I feel like a landscape, a ground without a figure.

God-bye, for the rest of this life and for the long nothing.

And, yes, there would be laughter again one day, and there would be times of calm, and times she felt peaceful in her heart. But it would be the absence