Silence is not the absence of anything, but the presence…

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look…

— Jackie Kay

“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 has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

— Sanford Meisner

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

— Thomas Moore

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

— Julius Lester

Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at…

— Kenneth Turan

“Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion. A filling up.”

— Anne D. LeClaire

“And it is hard, I imagine, for people who have not experienced this to understand the weight of that silence and how the absence…

— Daisy Hernandez

“Silence is not absence. It is waiting.”

— Santosh Kalwar

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

— Anthony de Mello