Top 1200 Absence Love Quotes & Sayings

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is not. It is the inclusion of all color. White is every other color that exists, combined. So, too, is love not the absence of an emotion (hatred, anger, lust, jealousy, covetousness), but the summation of all feeling. It is the sum total. The aggregate amount. The everything.

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

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 of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

Wellness is not the absence of pain ..... But the absence of limitation

In religious matters it is now fashionable to define tolerance as the absence of criticism of any standard religion. All too often, this absence of criticism degenerates into a conspicuous absence of thought.

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

Why is love intensified by absence?

Love is the absence of judgment.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love, an abstinence from physical pleasures is called brahmacharya, and anyone who wishes to be free from sex must develop his capacity to love. Freedom from sex cannot be achieved through supersession. Liberation from sex is only possible through love.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.

Absence - that common cure of love.

A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

There is no such thing as experience here. You seem to know, you imagine. Imagination must come to an end...I don't know how to put it. The absence of imagination, the absence of will, the absence of effort, the absence of all movement in any direction, on any level, in any dimension - THAT is the thing. That is a thing that cannot be experienced at all. It is not an experience.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.

A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching the romantic movie, but love in a sense of no absence.

A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!

Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the absence of conditions that give rise to war.

Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

Love has no value in the absence of truth.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

I knew medicine only by its absence - specifically, the absence of a father growing up: one who went to work before dawn and returned in the dark to a plate of reheated dinner.

The absence of fear is love.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Love is the absence of Anxiety.

I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-love at once protected me from and subjected me to.... For if grace woke me to God's presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

Is not absence death to those who love?

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.

Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.

Separation is the absence of Love, and Love is the absence of separation.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence of confidence. Love is the absence of doubt. Hate is the absence of peace. Fear is the absence of faith. Life is the absence of death.

That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of the truth.