Absence Quotes

Have we ever thought to consider that the need to be loved grows because of its absence, but that love also grows because of its presence? And does this not speak to the power of love?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

~ Hilary Mantel

When the river of emotions bursts its banks and expectations go over the edges of reality, the brain creates hallucinations. Ringxiety-stricken people feel illusive vibrating alerts and hear phantom phone rings, since absence of ringing generates scaring emptiness and destroys their self-esteem. (Kein Schwein ruft mich an )

~ Erik Pevernagie

A positive mindset alone in the absence of hard work will get you nowhere.

~ Ken Poirot

A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

However much you have been wanting and hoping and dreaming of meeting the person of your dreams, it is only when you meet them that you will start missing them. It seems that the presence of an object is required to make its absence felt (or to make the absence of something felt). A kind of longing may have preceded their arrival, but you have to meet in order to feel the full force of your frustration in their absence.

~ Adam Phillips

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

~ Shaun Hick

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

~ Shaun Hick

Influence is when you are not the one talking and yet your words fill the room, when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring himself to reply. Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not yet learned to stifle with words.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I lost myself in the burden of trying to be your savior.

~ Alexandria Hampton

In the absence of light, you find the brightest parts of you.

~ Elvis Bittner

7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.

~ Jasper Fforde

She sheltered her colors in the dark, where others were blind to see; I caught a glimpse of her lastly when she gave me a chance, before disappearing into the day. There was beauty locked in her that unfolded like an umbrella's claw, her true self that desired compassion, trust, protection and the potential to soar. But I missed to late, that what I wasn't looking for, when she left her reasons in the rain.

~ Anthony Liccione

Rule 2: Genuine confidence is not the absence of fear, it is a transformed relationship with fear.

~ Russ Harris

I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside.

~ Anthony Liccione

I just wanted to tell you, how beautiful you were; that day, that night, that life.

~ Anthony Liccione

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

~ John Steinbeck

But thou art with us, with us in the past,The present, with us in the times to come.There is no grief, no sorrow, no despair,No languor, no dejection, no dismay,No absence scarcely can there be, for thoseWho love as we do. Speed thee well!

~ William Wordsworth

I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

~ Marcel Proust

My mind couldn't fit itself around the shape of his absence.

~ Lia Mills

You shine brighter than the sunBut even the sun goes away every nightBut it is hte sun's absence that makes us feel its power. We know the loss, the beauty and the life that the moon can't replace. That is why we hang on to each day we are given.

~ Karina Halle

absencelooks like a lake bed flooded with skysounds like cotton howlingtastes like tear-stained pillowssmells like churning bile and burnt hairfeels like screaming agony, my heart dying and dying

~ Beth Morey

People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes. The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it’s like missing water. Every day, you notice the person’s absence more.

~ Anne Tyler

You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.

~ Richard Brostoff

Unfailing friends are essential, when ‘presence’ and ‘absence’ are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and woe, while passion and lust for life are trampled. Reliable allies can shore us up and since we are our best ally, we first have got to make sure we get along well with ourselves. (Being my best friend”).

~ Erik Pevernagie

Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Your brand is your personal lawyer... It defends and speaks for you even in your absence. Keep calm and maintain a good brand!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Two main definitions of a true leader, His presence is noticed and his absence is felt...!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

awake, then die in the arms of a modified lover sleep, then dream in the absence of a tangible lover envision, then sing in the thralls of a hungry lover

~ A.p. Sweet

At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

~ James Dashner

Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.

~ Joyce Rachelle

This bed yawnsbeneath the weightof our absent selves.

~ Maya Angelou

Loneliness is not lack of companion, it is the absence of the right people in our life. That is why we are alone even among the people.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you’re like that, unguarded, than when you’re awake. When you’re awake you’re like someone with her eyes closed, watching a movie on the inside of your eyelids. I can’t reach you anymore. Once upon a time I could, but not now, and not for a long time.

~ Nicole Krauss

When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the standards of others. Empathy and connectedness, however, might bridge the gap, by stirring our consciousness of the sensitive queries and by assessing the intricate framework of our surroundings with their countless, prickly nitty-gritties. (Absence of Desire)

~ Erik Pevernagie

they comedifferent and the samewith each it is different and the samewith each the absence of love is differentwith each the absence of love is the same

~ Samuel Beckett

Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.

~ Roland Barthes