Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

Darkness is only light's absence. — Andrew Clements
I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say… — Bret Easton Ellis
An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good.… — Haruki Murakami
When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old,… — Sherman Alexie
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival. — Roland Barthes
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no… — Toni Morrison
Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed?… — Toni Morrison
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I… — Bret Easton Ellis
I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the… — Alyson Noel
Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it,… — Laurence Sterne
I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem. — Michel Foucault
Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand… — Elie Wiesel
To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things… — Anne Rice
Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes,… — Cecelia Ahern
Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and… — Cecelia Ahern
This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary.… — Aldous Huxley
In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting,… — Martha Stout
Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they… — Diana Gabaldon
A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility — Tom Brokaw
Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge;… — Dalai Lama
He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better… — Donald Miller
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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