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Quotes About Absence

the porch was empty. They had gone back inside. It was as if the Overlook had swallowed them.
~ Stephen King
To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Life is miserable without you, its almost like having you here!
~ Steven Bishop
Because poverty is a symptom—of the absence of a workable economy built on credible political, social, and legal institutions.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Poverty is a symptom—of the absence of a workable economy built on credible political, social, and legal institutions.
~ Steven D. Levitt
An absence of information is not the same as information about an absence." We're blind to our blindness.
~ Steven Johnson
Pitch black again. Like someone extinguished an angel.
~ Steven Kotler
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
~ Carlos Fuentes
Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on
~ Lana Del Rey
Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.
~ C.J. Langenhoven
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
~ Khalil Gibran
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.
~ Anna Brownell Jameson
Everyone we love builds a home in our heart. And when they are gone we spend eternity staring at their empty seat.
~ Bindi Irwin
To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?
~ Roland Barthes
It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.
~ Tupac Shakur
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon
~ Alice Sebold
Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there.
~ Eric Murray
When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.
~ Rajneesh
I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.
~ Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.
~ Thomas Overbury