Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone.… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Being oppressed means the absence of choices — Bell Hooks
Why is love intensified by absence? — Audrey Niffenegger
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. — William Shakespeare
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. — Friedrich Nietzsche
How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of… — Stephen King
These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no… — Ian Mcewan
God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God. — Albert Einstein
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means… — Charles Baudelaire
You try to be faithful And sometimes you're cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can't cope. And when you take the… — Unknown Author
Love is the absence of Anxiety. — Wilhelm Reich
There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always… — Andre Breton
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. — Alberto Manguel
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. — Robert A. Heinlein
Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it. — Nelson Mandela
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart. — Marianne Williamson
Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence. — Haruki Murakami
The color white is the absence of memory. — Stephen King
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but… — Ayn Rand
And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear. — Paulo Coelho
Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength.… — L. Ron Hubbard
I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be… — Knut Hamsun
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks. — Milan Kundera
And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers — Margaret Atwood

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