Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A…

“In absence, presence. In death, life.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Mr. Oamaru has taught me that loss isn't just limited to the present; it can happen in any direction. Even what's done and vanished…

— Karen Russell

“The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.”

— Ernst Bloch

“An unrealized loss isn't as painful as realized one.”

— Rolf Dobelli

“Absence is presence: not knowing how to do something means you’re freer to learn how to do it, rather than simply going with what…

— Drake Baer

“His absence was a presence. Who knew an empty space could take up so much room.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

— Rajneesh

“Absence has presence, sometimes, and that was what she felt. Absence like crushed-dead grass were something has been and is no longer. Absence where…

— Laini Taylor

If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon…

— Esther Hicks

Silence is not the absence of anything, but the presence of everything.

— Swami Premodaya

“The absence of the latter means nothing, though its presence may mean everything”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Not only strive to make your presence noticed, but also contribute to make your absence felt.

— Anil Sinha

“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

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise…

— Jesse Jackson

“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…

— Jane Lotter