Top 74 In Your Absence Quotes
#1. Beware of those who speak ill of others in your presence; don't be surprised of what they say about you in your absence.
A.J. Garces
#2. I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference
Rumi
#3. When u dont value the tears shed in your absence , you dont deserve the smile which begets the fragrance in life .
Sucher Chaturvedi
#4. Falling asleep in your arms again reminded me that I was only half a person in your absence. You make me whole.
Sylvain Reynard
#5. Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Salman Rushdie
#6. The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.
Eckhart Tolle
#7. A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#8. Your brand is your personal lawyer ... It defends and speaks for you even in your absence. Keep calm and maintain a good brand!
Israelmore Ayivor
#9. You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
Isabel Allende
#10. Well, there was a lack of naked men throwing themselves at me in your absence unfortunately so I've got nothing to help boost your confidence - not that you need anyone to boost that already insanely high ego of yours.
Skyla Madi
#11. Steward, it's our place to protect you."
"If I die in your absence Prince Jalan is to be demoted to peasant. There, I should be safe enough now?
Mark Lawrence
#12. I still have a lot of growing to do
and I know there is more room for it
in your absence.
Trista Mateer
#13. You taught me how to be alone. And I learned my lesson, in your absence.
Pleasefindthis
#14. Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
(Harvard Business School definition of leadership)
Sheryl Sandberg
#15. He brushed his thumb against her naked flesh and gently transferred his attention to her swollen lower lip.
"I did this to you. Does it hurt ?" he whispered.
"It only aches in your absence.
Sylvain Reynard
#16. The real essence of your distinctive footprints may least be felt in your presence and much more in your absence
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#17. I had rather be with you," he said, "in your solitary rambles, than with these Scotch people, whom I do not know: hasten then, my dear friend, to return, that I may again feel myself somewhat at home, which I cannot do in your absence.
Mary Shelley
#18. Even in your absence I fight with you in my mind, I laugh with you in my mind.
That's how the strong connection exists between you and me. It will be forever.
Emma Brynstein
#19. So, you don't have money to invest in your brand? You do have money for damage control, right?
Here's the thing: anyone can make your brand inferior in your absence.
Laura Busche
#20. In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.
Michael Ondaatje
#21. In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave.
Pablo Neruda
#22. When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as
the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
Kahlil Gibran
#24. Never fear Love's absence in your life, because it already exists within you, in great abundance.
Eleesha
#25. You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.
Rumi
#26. Your absence in my life is testing me every second. It has gifted me incompleteness, pain, and hope.
Rohit Sharma
#27. She managed to clear her throat. I'm sure this is impossible for you to comprehend, Deuce, but somehow, some way, without formal therapy or controlled substances, every single resident in the town of Rockingham, Massachusetts, has managed to survive your long absence. Every. Single. One.
Roxanne St. Claire
#28. If you had no language, then what form did your thoughts take - if you thought at all? Of course you thought - she had never had any difficulty with accepting that - but how limited would your thoughts be in the absence of any words to express them?
Alexander McCall Smith
#29. Father's silence is not merely the absence of sound. It's a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm.
Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.
Franny Billingsley
#30. Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.
Donald Hall
#31. If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission.
Wayne Dyer
#32. Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts.
Lysa TerKeurst
#33. A momentary presence of a person, at times, can comfortably numb his absence in your life.
Novoneel Chakraborty
#34. A sense of Jesus' absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he's working already in your life.
Timothy Keller
#35. I can tell you this. That in the absence of perfect information, I choose to believe in the version of events that would occur in the best of all possible worlds. What that version of events is: that's your decision. That's up to you. I can't decide that for you; I wouldn't try.
Dexter Palmer
#36. I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
William S. Burroughs
#37. Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Alice Koller
#38. 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.
Nicky Gumbel
#39. There is an unspoken pact between best friends that stipulates the following:
To induce laughter, all you have to do is look at your partner-in-crime - even in the absence of said crime.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#40. The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it.
Donald Barthelme
#41. You don't realize how big somebody was in your life, until you measure the space of their absence.
Christina L. Rozelle
#42. Trust is all about instinct. If you had all the facts, you wouldn't need trust. Trust is what is required in the absence of proof. But I believe you can strengthen your instincts by testing them; every time you prove yourself right or wrong, they grow stronger.
Will Schwalbe
#43. I will not be in here for ever, I promise. All metaphors need to come up for air. When I can bear no more of separation, when I have learnt all that absence can teach me of desire, the walls will shimmer and I will step out of the mirage, into your arms, to lose myself and find myself.
Kamila Shamsie
#44. You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me is
your absence, Alaric
Alyssa Day
#45. Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
Charles Lamb
#46. Who wants a friend who talks about you behind your back? How do I know I can trust you to say good things in my absence when I've seen you cut up a "friend" behind his or her back, only to smile and act endearing when the person unexpectedly appears?
Alan E. Nelson
#47. Even if you are alive somewhere, the absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence. Everything in the room, even the stars in the sky, can disappear in a second, changing one scene for another, just like in a dream.
Hwang Sok-yong
#48. 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.
Robert Breault
#49. Oh, may your silhouette not be broken in the sand,
oh may your eyelids not fly in the absence:
do not go for one minute, beloved,
because in that minute you will have gone so far
that I will cross all the earth asking
if you will return or if you will leave me dying.
Pablo Neruda
#50. Deeply in love with you, I feel the keen pain of your absence.
Laura Ramirez
#51. The absence of tumult, more than its presence, is an enemy of the soul. God meets you in your weakness, not in your strength. He comforts those who mourn, not those who live above desperation. He reveals Himself more often in darkness than in the happy moments of life.
Dan B. Allender
#52. My insides turn outward in acknowledgement of your absence. My heart slips out of my chest and down into my gut.
Coco J. Ginger
#53. You don't realize how much a dog's presence defines the contours of your home until, in its absence, the walls seem to relocate themselves.
Meghan Daum
#54. Faith is your guide in the absence of knowledge.
Toba Beta
#55. You will be burning alive, when the ones who meant the world to you leaves for no reasons ... In fact, its not their absence which is hurting, but its the memories of their presence which is tearing your heart apart ...
Gayathri Purushothaman
#56. When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#57. Sir, in your thirty-nine years as a parent, you broke your children's hearts, collectively and individually, 612 times and you did this without ever striking any human being in anger. Does this absence of physical violence make you a better man than you might otherwise have been?
Sherman Alexie
#58. Sometimes the most important and powerful element is an absence, a lack, a burnished space in your mind that glows and aches as you try to fill it.
Deirdre Madden
#59. Since you went the sun refuses to shine The sky joins me in weeping for your absence All our pleasure is gone with you ... Silence reigns everywhere ... Oh come back! Already the shepherds and their flocks call for you! Come back soon, or it will be winter in May.
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
#60. Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean Paul
#61. Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home.
Gina Greenlee
#62. 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
Andre Breton
#63. One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
Marina Tsvetaeva
#64. The status quo is not your friend; in a competitive, down economy, the absence of change means death. Those who coast with current best practices may enjoy a period of time where it works. But if you don't reinvent yourself, your competitors will do it for you.
Anonymous
#65. Holy Spirit, in the absence of fire, clouds, and burning bushes, I sometimes struggle to see You. Please make Your presence known to me tonight.
Baker Publishing Group
#66. But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.
Ann Aguirre
#67. Now in the thriving season of love
when the bud relents into flower,
your love turned absence has turned once more,
and if my comforts fall soft as rain
on her flutters, it is because
love grows by what it remembers of love
Lisel Mueller
#68. 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.
Anne Michaels
#69. The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.
Shelagh Delaney
#70. He still felt her absence; it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. You wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.
James Dashner
#71. If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then DO NOT be afraid to LEAVE someone who is messing with YOUR MOOD in a detrimental way.
Shay Dawkins
#72. You can have all visits back home be fond experiences, if you get a firm handle on your own struggle for independence from your parents. And if you model self-pride and self-worth for your children, they will in turn leave the nest with an absence of stress and turmoil for all concerned.
Wayne W. Dyer
#73. I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.
Lisa Kleypas
#74. I realized that my father's absence is our slippers. In order to start to get rid of your slippers, you have to admit they are yours, and if you do, then they will get rid of themselves.
Abraham Verghese
