Absence Quote by Alcibiades

“As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.”

— Alcibiades

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

— William Blake

“There is a place where Contrarieties are equally true. This place is called Beulah. it is a pleasant lovely Shadow, where no dispute can…

— William Blake

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

— Stephanie Mills

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day,…

— Alexander Smith

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

— Ellis Peters

“An absence of mistrust is not enough; there must be a weariness of mistrusting, and, as it were, courage must be impatient with the…

— Stendhal

Prophecies and glory forge a massive disdain. For lying passive in the shadows whilst the enemy reigns.

— Cradle Of Filth

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

— John Donne

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

— Andre Gide

Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a certain day…

— Charlotte Brontë