Absence Quotes

I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them has grace, like every moment in their company is a gift. But Finn did. Finn, my midsummer night's dream.

~ Jane Lotter

YOU YOU YOUyour eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edgesa book of myths in which i do not appear.

~ Clint Catalyst

Take it easy when you are busy! It shall never be easy but, take it easy!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

With Dante gone, time seemed to stand still around me; the mornings just as cloudy and dark as the evenings, as if the sun had never decided to rise. There was no wind, like the world was holding its breath along with me, waiting for him to return.

~ Yvonne Woon

I had seen the few things I cared about forget me seamlessly. I had seen the life I never really fit into heal up around my absence like a wound scabbed over.

~ Alexandra Kleeman

Love and hatred are intertwined in life. They agree to disagree and they disagree to agree. When one is absent the other may become present. In what we hate most lay what we love most and in what we love most lay what we hate most

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.

~ Crystal Woods

You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.

~ Amit Kalantri

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were bad non-truths, even, but he nodded and tried to convince himself to be convinced, tried to believe her, because he knew that the origin of a story is always an absence, and he wanted her to live among presences.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Smartass Disciple: Master, where is exactly the edge of this universe ?Master of Stupidity: Edge is wherever the absence of universal gravity.

~ Toba Beta

The absence of the spirit of gratitude in one's heart, always hinders the presence of happiness in one's life.

~ Hafiz

She affected me, even when she was absent.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is a hole in the heart called absence. You live in it my dear.

~ Malak El Halabi

The absence of conditions for self-realization in a country, region and community leads to stagnation, social and economic crisis

~ Sunday Adelaja

How people feel when they are returning home from an absence, long or short, I did not know: I had never experienced the sensation. I had known what it was to come back to Gateshead when a child after a long walk, to be scolded for looking cold or gloomy; and later, what it was to come back from church to Lowood, to long for a plenteous meal and a good fire, and to be unable to get either. Neither of these returnings was very pleasant or desirable: no magnet drew me to a given point, increasing in its strength of attraction the nearer I came. The return to Thornfield was yet to be tried.

~ Charlotte Brontë

There was existence in oblivion, there is you in oblivion.

~ Pushpa Rana

Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly round him, feeling the ceaseless thumping of his heart in the silence of the night, the irrevocability of absence, the rigid stillness of repose, the agony of solitude and sleeplessness. If the room was a prison, the bed was a tomb.

~ Marcel Proust

The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this in itself is bearable enough; for we do not weep at their being absent or intending to be absent during their lifetime, although when they leave our sight we have no more pleasure in them. What tortures us, therefore, is an idea.

~ Seneca

Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

Achievement is not possible in the absence of Zeal.

~ Kishore Bansal

The secret of the whole matter is that a habit is not the mere tendency to repeat a certain act, nor is it established by the mere repetition of the act. Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction. The indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school itself, but to the pressure of his father's will; when that stimulus is absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur.

~ Edward O. Sisson

The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.

~ Charlotte Brontë

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

With your absence I have realised that hoe the once, warm comforting streets have suddenly turned to become so cold and dark

~ Kiran Joshi

You tasted like fireAnd I miss that.So, at timesI drank a little.And at times,I drank too much.But I only drankTill it burned me enough.

~ Saiber

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

~ Ally Condie

Rationality doesn’t exist, right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

~ Idries Shah

It is not the mountain that is our problem but the absence of knowledge on how to deal withthe mountain.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You are my angel and my damnation, in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

~ Isabel Allende

The absence of wish, to analysis yourself, the surrounding world, and what you are doing. Is the logical, and philosophical proof, of zombie mind, and consciousness.

~ Vicdo

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

~ Alfred North Whitehead

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

~ Helmut Kohl