Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes… — Nicole Krauss
Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other. — Gregory Maguire
Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm… — Jack Gilbert
I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand… — Ally Carter
New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place,… — Wendell Berry
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends… — Maya Angelou
You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence… — Neil Gaiman
And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. — Stacy Schiff
To be honest," I halfwhispered, "I don't feel as safe with him as I do with you." "I know." A ghost of a smile touched… — Lisa Kleypas
In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence… — Rachel Cohn
Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our splintery Adirondack chairs… — Sarah Dessen
Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something. — Lisa Unger
It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender — Orson Scott Card
I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see… — Unknown Author
I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the… — P.G. Wodehouse
In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence. — Michael Ondaatje
It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to… — Alain de Botton
Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence… — Erma Bombeck
It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches. — Deborah Harkness
It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally… — C.S. Lewis
This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores trivialities like breath,… — Anna Funder
Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to… — Arianna Huffington
Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious… — Steven Erikson

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