Absence Quotes

Achilles absent was Achilles still.

Homer

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Tacitus

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Ouida

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

La Rochefoucauld

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

Colette

Sometimes when one person is missing the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

The absent are always wrong.

English Proverb

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Absent in body but present in spirit.

Bible

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

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

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

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

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

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Audrey Niffenegger

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

Charlotte Brontë

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

Achievement is not possible in the absence of Zeal.

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

Aleksandar Hemon

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

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

High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!

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.

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

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

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

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

Malak El Halabi

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

She affected me, even when she was absent.

Shannon A. Thompson

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

Toba Beta

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

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

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

Richard Brostoff

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.

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

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.

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

Lia Mills

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

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

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

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