Skip to content

Absence Quote by Emily Carr

“There is a side of friendship that develops better and…” quote by Emily Carr — Download Open image

“There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Absence Contact Correspondence Flesh Friendship Sides Soul Stronger Writing

More by Emily Carr

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

Image

The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is…

Image

What a splendid time Woo must have had.

Image

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the…

Image

Inspiration is intention obeyed.

Image

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

Image

Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond…

Image

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it…

Image

How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got…

Image

The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of…

Image

Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according…

Image

Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!

Image

Explore all 76 Emily Carr quotes

More Absence quotes

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

Image

The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the…

Phil Dusenberry

Image

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he…

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Image

Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by…

Image

There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had…

Image

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

Image

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

Image

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is…

Colin Greenwood

Image

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is…

Image

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and…

Image

“I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them…

Image

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

Image

Browse all 1,896 Absence quotes