Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

When I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

When love has left us in the lurch and nothing ever strikes a chord anymore, we may come to realize a vacuum of the lost vibrations of happiness and an absence of the ethereal and exalting feel of harmony that we only become aware of, after time passes by and everything has expired. (“Amour en friche”)

When our hope is delayed, it is not cancelled.

When will your sun come - to make everything reborn? -The burn of your fingers pressed against my being- I would like to fall asleep in your body again And make of your smiles an open source When my life is like a desolate desert I would like to fall asleep by the light sand of your skin. Your voice - your voice alone knows how to put an end to my anger As your lips faint on the pains of my yesterday When will you come to drape me in your radiant sun? So that I find life in its first taste (-The glow of your hair is a roof of moonlight.)

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.

When there was nothing left to do, but say goodbye, I hugged my dad, thanked him for the hospitality, and we both agreed it had been a good visit. Tears welled up in his eyes, and I realized at that moment, it doesn't matter how old our children or parents are, it doesn't get any easier to say good by. I had lost my younger daughter; my oldest will have moved out by the time I returned home, and dad was saying goodby to his oldest daughter. The circle of life connected us. How many times over the last forty-plus years had my dad reluctantly, with tears in his eyes, said goodbye to me? It made my own situation with my daughters more poignant.

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" )

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

When you want something badly, you focus on absence. You feel that way because you feel you don’t have something.

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

Would you dare to reach inside the vault of a feral heart? Glare into the keyhole, eyes bound with intrigue...is it real what we perceive? or does the absent colour leave you lost or decieved?

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

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

Your presence only truly matters to people who feel your absence.

You shine brighter than the sun" "But even the sun goes away every night" "But 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.

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

absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.

Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.

Yes, in the feverish dance of dust, she thinks, there is surely a speck of Zachariah. Even in his absence, in so many ways, he is so very much here.

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

You know when you’re on a train at a station and there’s another train opposite and the other train starts moving and there’s that utterly convincing illusion that it’s your train that is moving and you feel a bit disorientated when you realise you’re still standing still. That’s what my life has been like since Freddie left.

Your presence only truly matters to those who cannot bear your absence.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Absence of occupation is not rest.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.