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Absence Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.
- A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart,…
- In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.
More Absence Quotes
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
- I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my… — Brendan Behan
- Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Ambrose Bierce
- Life has become the ideology of its own absence. — Theodor Adorno
- The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Elizabeth Bowen
- Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. — David Bowie
- Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from… — Bill Bryson
- There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. — Samuel Butler