Incompleteness In Absence Quotes

#1. Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Edmond De Goncourt

#2. I lack the World, for I move like a Ghost through it.

Peter Ackroyd

#3. An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call
That bides the spheres become articulate.

Josephine Preston Peabody

#4. Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'

Wilbur Smith

#5. Who are you going to be more impressed by, the person who has a litany of his own opinions, or the historian who can draw on the great thinkers who came before him?

Joshua Foer

#6. To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

Mason Cooley

#7. Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

A.A. Milne

#8. What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.

Antony Beevor

#9. The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. The book should be the written counterpart of the unwritten world; its subject should be what does not exist and cannot exist except when written, but whose absence is obscurely felt by that which exists, in its own incompleteness.

Italo Calvino

#11. Your absence in my life is testing me every second. It has gifted me incompleteness, pain, and hope.

Rohit Sharma

#12. The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.

Herbert Gold

#13. Many people are caught up with the toys of contemporary society. Because of great advancements in our culture, some have cultivated an attitude of "comfortability." They may be going to hell, but it is going to be a comfortable ride for them.

A.W. Tozer

#14. Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson