Their Absence Quotes
28 quotes by 25 authors
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I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their…
— James Martineau
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Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
— Anna Howard Shaw
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This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical…
— Lyn Hejinian
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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments,…
— Jerzy Grotowski
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If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by…
— Heloise
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A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one…
— Erving Goffman
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The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a…
— Meriwether Lewis
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All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.
— Steve Coogan
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But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the…
— Simon Van Booy
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to…
— Tammy Bruce
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A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a union.…
— Eric Liu
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We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them.…
— Gerald Brenan
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
— Alberto Manguel
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And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and…
— T.A. Barron
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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
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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
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I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,†I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know…
— Bernard Cornwell
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Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.
— Sherry Argov
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Some people are so important in our life, not because we enjoy their company, but because we feel so lonely in their absence.
— Nishan Panwar
Who Wrote These Their Absence Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 28 Their Absence Quotes as follows: