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Quotes About Absence

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
~ Alexander Pope
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
~ Ben Jonson
I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be.
~ Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland
I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.
~ Daniel Handler
Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
~ Adolfo Bioy Casares
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
~ Anne Carson
Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone. It's not warm when she's away. Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone, and she's always gone too long, anytime she goes away.
~ Bill Withers
The absence of fear is love.
~ Chris Murphy
It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.
~ Diane de Poitiers
Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.
~ Brian Andreas
Is not absence death to those who love?
~ Alexander Pope
Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
~ Georges Bernanos
'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.
~ Frederick William Thomas
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Though thirty spokes may form the wheel, it is the hole within the hub which gives the wheel utility. It is not the clay the potter throws, which gives the pot its usefulness, but the space within the shape, from which the pot is made. Without a door, the room cannot be entered, and without its windows it is dark Such is the utility of non-existence.212 A
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Ogor?enje ra?a želju za osvetom. Nudit ?e manje spontanih iskaza ljubavi, sve više racionaliziraju?i njihovu odsutnost.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
However, as powerful as the Straight Line System is, it completely breaks down in the absence of one crucial element, which is: You need to take immediate control of the sale.
~ Jordan Belfort
Vanda ficou só com o cadáver. Quincas Berro Dágua sorria e o dedo grande do pé direito parecia crescer no buraco da meia.
~ Jorge Amado
A morte apaga, com sua mão de ausência, as manchas do passado e a memória do morto fulge como diamante
~ Jorge Amado
O desejo nascia dela, de seu peito, do silêncio, do devaneio, da solidão, do sonho. Sem motivo, sem ponto de partida, sem semente nem raiz. Nascendo dela — "de minha ruindade mesmo, Norminha" —, de seu corpo em febre, crescendo naquela carne estrumada de ausência, de penúrias, de maldições; ânsia plantada no esterco de sua danação:
~ Jorge Amado
Mas o que é uma donzela, tola e ignorante em seu desejo, se comparada a uma viúva, cujo anseio é feito de conhecimento e de ausência, de contenção e de penúria, de fome e de jejum, é lúcido e insolente?
~ Jorge Amado
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Quizá sea verdad que no piensas en nada, aunque no pensar en nada justamente en los momentos más íntimos es una defensa, Inés, una huida que te mantiene la mente en blanco, bloqueada por la ausencia de tu ser para que el miedo y las preguntas no se inscriban en ti...
~ José Donoso
How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra. "Almost seven years." "Then you have probably forgotten all about it." "Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.
~ Jose Rizal