Top 1200 Your Absence Quotes & Sayings

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

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

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.

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.

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 closed so that when something is gone, it can be recognized by the shape of its absence. So that you can continue to possess the lost, because absence is the only constant thing. Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been.

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

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

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.

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

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

When you hear that your neighbor or friend has reproached you in your absence or presence, then show love and praise him.

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

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.

The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in.

In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

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

There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time

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

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

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.

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.

The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.

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

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

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.

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

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

When your life is working there will be an absence of drama

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.

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

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

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.

Your absence has gone through me

History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

The key to contentedness is not the absence of work; neither is it to cap each day with the witless abandon of hollow entertainment, but to fill your days with that which fills your life with meaning.

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.

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.

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

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

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.

Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or disasters, can heal or harm, can bring abundance or absence. It is up to your mind whether the world looks hopeful or hopeless.

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

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

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

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

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.

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

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.