Top 100 Quotes About Absence Of Love
#1. Absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#2. Deeply in love with you, I feel the keen pain of your absence.
Laura Ramirez
#3. My heart pounded against my chest, competing with the deafening absence of sound in the air. I'd never known silence like this.
Tracy Lane
#4. Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it's own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.
Coco J. Ginger
#5. I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]
Linda Pastan
#6. Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.
Henry Adams
#8. The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.
Samuel Johnson
#9. All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
Anne Carson
#10. No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.
David Brainerd
#11. A feeling that He's right here with you or that you're miles apart, is the difference of a prayer with love, or with an absence of the heart.
Lisa Mischelle Wood
#12. The rest of the short walk was silent. It was that loud sort
of silence where the absence is painful, when there's so much to
say, but nothing is said.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#13. Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God
William Greenough Thayer Shedd
#14. Aiden had filled a part of my heart that I hadn't known was empty. And for that I'd be forever grateful. Beneath the pain was the reality of the end of whatever it was we'd shared. I missed him, and his absence was profound. He was everywhere, yet he was nowhere at all.
Lilly Wilde
#15. The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.
Rita Zahara
#16. When you love too hard, you can lose the will to live without them. Everywhere you look is a great big sucking absence of what you once had and will never have again. And life gets weirdly flat and too sharp and painful at the same time, and nothing feels right and everything cuts.
Karen Marie Moning
#17. It is far easier for us to accept the death of someone we love than to cope with the idea of losing him and discovering that he is able to carry on with his life, in all its intricacies, despite our absence.
Ahlam Mosteghanemi
#18. I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#19. 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
#20. Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.
John Rechy
#21. As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#23. Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.
Criss Jami
#24. Making love - having sex - with James had been like discovering a lie of omission. She had become more aware of things because of their pronounced absence.
Delphine Dryden
#26. Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#27. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
Charles M. Schulz
#28. Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
Albert Camus
#30. The man filled with good qualities like Truth, Love, absence of jealousy, ego and hatred, can see God without searching for Him. He becomes a Jnani (a man of spiritual wisdom).
Sathya Sai Baba
#31. They come
different and the same
with each it is different and the same
with each the absence of love is different
with each the absence of love is the same
Samuel Beckett
#32. It is far easier to talk about loss than it is to talk about love. It is easier to articulate the pain of love's absence than to describe its presence and meaning in our lives.
Bell Hooks
#34. Sammy felt...that he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving. He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel.
Michael Chabon
#35. Love and belonging are irreducible needs of all men, women, and children. We're hardwired for connection - it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The absence of love, belonging, and connection always leads to suffering.
Brene Brown
#36. Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
Ann Brashares
#37. Of course I'll hurt you. Of course you'll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#38. Love can be simply the absence of tension.
Will Advise
#40. Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
Oliver Goldsmith
#41. It's not love that the past needs in order to survive, it's an absence of choices.
Susan Sontag
#42. In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil.
Ayn Rand
#43. He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.
Scott Cairns
#44. The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through divine decree; and seeing the perfection of the Beloved in everything and being content with Him in everything through submission to Him in all things.
Ibn Ata Allah
#45. Why is love intensified by absence? Long ago, men went to sea and women wait for them, standing on the edge of the water, standing in the horizon for the tiny ship.
Audrey Niffenegger
#46. Loss.
A known absence.
If you didn't know it,
it would be nothing,
which it is, of course,
a nothing of another kind,
as acutely felt as a blister,
but a tumult, too,
in the region of the heart and lungs,
an emptiness with a name: You
Siri Hustvedt
#47. The absence of violence is not love.
A.S. King
#48. Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
Paulo Freire
#49. Courage is not the absence of fear. Hope is not the absence of trouble. Joy is not the absence of pain. Love is not the absence of obstacles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#50. The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges us
Francine Noel
#51. The irony of the human heart is that it's tormented both by the presence and absence of it's own soul's counterpart.
Crystal Woods
#52. Peace is not the absence of violence or war; it is the presence of kindness, compassion, love, and care.
Debasish Mridha
#53. I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life.
Marilyn Sewell
#54. Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
Flannery O'Connor
#55. first condition of a happy marriage is the absence of love, and the first condition of an enduring love is the absence of marriage.
Henrik Ibsen
#56. The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83
Frederick Buechner
#57. Separation is the absence of Love, and Love is the absence of separation.
Ramesh S Balsekar
#58. You just know something is amiss, when you look at someone and long for something that is not yours or you cannot have. It's an absence
a loss of a heartbeat.
Nadege Richards
#59. And Id be struck a new by the finality of Ruth's absence.
Nicholas Sparks
#60. Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
Anna Howard Shaw
#61. she lost herself in a delirious absence from herself which restored her to love and, perhaps, brought her to the edge of death.
Pauline Reage
#63. The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
George Saunders
#64. Enter any moment devoid of agenda, with an absence of posturing, and with your only intention being to send love to everyone you meet or even think of ...
Happiness, miracles and inner peace will follow.
Marianne Williamson
#65. I festered with this duality of love and ego, where ego scorns the very love its seeking and then despairs in its absence.
Meghna Pant
#66. I know love because I know the absence of it, you know what I mean? Like, I know black because I've seen white, something like that
C.M. Stunich
#67. To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.
Milton Sapirstein
#68. Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
Victor Hugo
#70. Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to love and be subservient together. Nor had he ever thought of me as a human being, let alone a woman. For no reason had he ever softened towards me, I had stirred him that little.
Tehmina Durrani
#71. He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn't bear to keep it, but he couldn't bear to destroy it either.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#72. 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
#73. It has been further suggested that the absence of love is the major cause of mental illness and that the presence of love is consequently the essential healing element in psychotherapy. This
M. Scott Peck
#74. Love is the absence of control and the presence of faith. And you won't truly be happy until you surrender to it.
Chelsea Fine
#75. I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them has grace, like every moment in their company is a gift. But Finn did. Finn, my midsummer night's dream.
Jane Lotter
#76. Only what is seen, appreciated, and loved will be missed in its absence which makes humans creatures of habit
Aloysius Jnr
#78. Sorry & Thanks are the only two words in the dictionary of life wherein its presence connects two strangers, and its absence departs two loved ones.
Swati Jain
#79. Have we ever thought to consider that the need to be loved grows because of its absence, but that love also grows because of its presence? And does this not speak to the power of love?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#81. You and I are the sum of a void left by the absence of someone we love.
Jennifer Rush
#82. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as were meant to be. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache ... The absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering.
Brene Brown
#83. Peace is not the absence of agony
But the presence of joy of harmony
Debasish Mridha
#84. A great measure of the real value of the things we have is how we feel when such things become scarce and absent in our lives
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#85. True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.
Helen Rowland
#86. love is the presence of some one absence...
Anonymous
#87. For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.
John Donne
#88. In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
Elijah Wood
#89. What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
Anthony De Mello
#90. Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
Anthony Trollope
#91. He'd woken up to the absence of Mathilde in the bed, grief in the coolness where her heat should have been.
Lauren Groff
#92. She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How shr could ever cope with his permanent absence?
Khaled Hosseini
#93. I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
Coco Chanel
#94. The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
Moliere
#95. I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.
Simon Van Booy
#96. Peace is not the absence of poverty
But the presence of love for beauty
Debasish Mridha
#98. Substitution is a true test of strength. The real performance of a player is seen not only during playing time but also and more especially when the player is substituted.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#99. Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.
Cyril Connolly
#100. True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.
Alexander MacLaren
