Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about… — Audrey Niffenegger
Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure… — Audrey Niffenegger
But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child… — Sarah Dessen
We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from… — Richard Siken
There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There… — John Berryman
Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it,… — Margaret Atwood
But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling. — Lisa Kleypas
He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication. — Allan Bloom
Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small… — Franny Billingsley
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be… — Veronica Roth
In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence — Marcus Aurelius
In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's. — Gayle Forman
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. — Hilary Mantel
Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony. — Laini Taylor
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. — Carlos Fuentes
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad… — Henry Miller
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me. — Paulo Coelho
Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been away. It’s as… — Irvine Welsh
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. — Helen Keller
I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence. — Lisa Kleypas
What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of… — Naomi Klein
Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question. — Rosemary Clement-Moore
It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself. — Paulo Coelho

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