Absence Quotes

“Let us not allow gaslighters to plunder the treasured gems of our mind file, nor erode the translucent color of its quality. ("Absence of Desire")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“And in your absence,
I cried like I never did before
I cried with all senses
I cried as if I'm raining
As if I’m melting all at once.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“To be sure, I occasionally pretended to take life seriously. But very soon frivolity of seriousness struck me and I merely went on playing my role as well as I could. I played at being efficient, intelligent, virtuous, civic-minded, shocked, indulgent, fellow-spirited, edifying...I was absent at the moment when I took up the most space.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Sometimes I see you in a dream
Sometimes I hear your voice in the crowd
Sometimes out of the blue, your memory falls on me
I want to ease the pain
let the tears dry
accept your absence
say goodbye.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“When I needed the comfort of your presence. All that you gave me was this loneliness.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“Sunset Room

The evening slowly ambered and the sun got cold yet fervent. There was emptiness sithout any sign of human activity. Room was filled with sun rays relaxing on the sofas, mashing and peeking through the glass window. Everything was depicting the
the absence of life yet illuminating by the warmth.”
― Iqra Iqbal

“Clouds have to block the sun to bring the rain, for the absence of either means the existence of nothing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Absence of self is the enemy of wisdom.”
― Santosh Kalwar, The Lacetier

“There is no more obvious indicator of the passage of time than children growing in your absence.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

“from THE PAUSE BETWEEN


One day the dragonflies appear sudden as the sun.
Speed and softness, they lash sky to air in silent seams.
One's barred wings and abdomen are pressing

to the warm dock's slats. Another lights on the Chekhov book
you bought me, not realizing, like everything, it is a short
story, too.”
― Ken Craft, Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between Poems

“If all that you’re praying for is an easy life, what you’re really praying for is the absence of life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The absence of a solution does not mean the lack of one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Era terribile constatarlo, ma forse quella realtà che cercava nell' "esistenza" non l'avrebbe mai trovata, perché essa non era altro che un aspetto della non esistenza, una configurazione dell' "assenza". L' "assenza" è un angelo. L' "esistenza" è un angelo disceso dal cielo, cui hanno tarpato le ali. Non vi è nulla di più triste della sua immagine: non può fare il minimo movimento all'interno degli angusti confini della terra. Non può cantare, non può parlare. E' soltanto una commiserevole figura plastica, cui non è permesso altro che farsi toccare. Immobile e silenzioso, non spiccherà mai più il volo col suo abbagliante batter d'ali, simile al polline di pino che si libera come polvere d'oro verso il cielo sereno e luminoso.”
― Yukio Mishima, La foresta in fiore

“Sunset Room

The evening slowly ambered and the sun got cold yet fervent. There was emptiness without any sign of human activity. Room was filled with sun rays relaxing on the sofas, mashing and peeking through the glass window. Everything was depicting the
the absence of life yet illuminating by the warmth.”
― iqra iqbal

“...those absent can feel more present, do more damage, than any warm body in the room.”
― Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas

“Our books should be missing something, the finding of which makes us whole.”
― Joshua Cohen

“At a certain age we forget to be afraid of people. We start to dread, instead, their absence.”
― Jonathan Lee, The Great Mistake

“When anybody that we love very much goes away, how sacred their last words seem, and sometimes the only way in which we can console ourselves at all for their absence, is by going and doing something for them, so as to feel connected to them still.”
― Brenda, Nothing to Nobody

“Représenter, c'est aussi rendre visible deux fois, célébrer la présence et déplorer l'absence.”
― Elisabeth Lebovici, Ce que le sida m’a fait – Art et activisme à la fin du 20e siècle

“Being lost does not suggest the absence of a map.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Dark sometimes is described as the absence of light. But light, conversely, is not just the absence of dark. Light is something far different. Light is energy. Darkness is but a void.”
― Shawn P. McCarthy

“I looked for you in your shoes.
I found nothing
and the rain.
I tried our shirts, your pants,
called your sweatshirts mine,
but a dead man's things are
no one's, and this house screams out for you.
I searched the hours, perforated by rain.
I looked in the milk, the salt, cold water,
and found the rain.
I looked in the billowing curtains,
they were haunted with the rain.
Mother curled around it
and slept. She dreamed
she wandered, calling your name, and you
turned to her with no teeth.
She sought you in her cupped hands,
but nothing
followed by the names of God,
and after Amen, the rain.”
― Li-Young Lee, Rose

“If my standard for truth is determined by the world around me and not informed by the God within me, the one truth that we can be certain of is its absence.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The only ‘truth’ that we can bring to bear in the pursuit of our greed is the truth of its absence in the pursuit.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“One is impelled to glance across the table, and since you went away I have done that so often that my eyes must have worn some varnish from the empty chair.”
― Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris

“My brain is like Swiss cheese.”
― Steven Magee

“I am so very absent. The world is overcrowded with my absence. Life is where I am not. No matter where I am…”
― Gospodinov Georgi

“There exists in Ein Sof, that is, in the Infinite itself, in the divine source, absolute good, which is the origin and source of all perfection and all good in the world. It is perfection, and perfection requires no alterations, it is dignified and immovable, there can be no movement in it. But for us, who look upon it from the underside of creation, from afar, this motionlessness seems dead, and therefore bad, yet perfection excludes movement, creation, change, and therefore the very possibility of our freedom. That is why it is said that in the depths of absolute good, the root of all evil is concealed, and that root is the negation of every miracle, every movement, and all that is possible and all that might still happen. For us, then, for people, good is something other than what it is for God. For us, good is the tension between God’s perfection and his withdrawal in order that the world might arise. For us, good is the absence of God from where he could instead be.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

“It’s not the absence of good. It’s being brave enough to oppose the presence of evil.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When in disagreement, do not employ a vulgar, defaming, or callow response; in the absence of logic, respond in a refined manner; word choice and tone always matter.”
― RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 1997