Top 100 Quotes About Your Absence
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Deeply in love with you, I feel the keen pain of your absence.
Laura Ramirez
#4. 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
#5. It's not the parting or the absence that's sad. You love them, and that's why saying good-bye breaks your heart.
Kyoichi Katayama
#6. The absence of specific knowledge about success is the reason why your journey along the path to success has been halted
Sunday Adelaja
#7. 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
#8. People talk about grief as emptiness, but it's not empty. It's full. Heavy. Not an absence to fill. A weight to pull. Your skin caught on hooks chained to rough boulders made of all the futures you thought you'd have.
Elan Mastai
#9. 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
#10. My insides turn outward in acknowledgement of your absence. My heart slips out of my chest and down into my gut.
Coco J. Ginger
#11. If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.
Deepak Chopra
#12. 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
#13. You've so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don't ask how. Then you come near. "Do not ... " I say, and "Do not ... ," you answer. Don't ask why this delights me.
Rumi
#14. Faith is your guide in the absence of knowledge.
Toba Beta
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.
Eve Ensler
#19. I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
Claude Monet
#20. 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
#21. The real essence of your distinctive footprints may least be felt in your presence and much more in your absence
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. If your absence is ever felt, then you will be either missed or cursed.
Shreya Gupta
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. If you can open your mouth to say; I love you! To someone without taking such person(s) as your priority, even with your gifts and money, something more important than your freebie is missing out!
Michael Bassey Johnson
#29. Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.
Doug Fetherling
#30. 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
#31. Your absence is the presence of godliness.
Rajneesh
#32. Let him miss you. He should love to love your absence as well.
Saleem Sharma
#33. 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
#34. Not thinking about it much is not proof of healing, nor is the ability to speak about your painful event indifferently. The absence of one or presence of the other proves nothing.
Amber Lynn Natusch
#35. You're at a tricky age. Is it your parent's presence or your parent's absence that's more empowering? I'm no expert. I went from catching fireflies at your age to... well, adulthood.
Nancy Freund
#36. The girl arrived; I thought her handsome; and as I doubted not that you would be mortified by my absence, I did most sincerely hope that she would be able to dissipate something of your ennui: for it is the fidelity of the heart alone that I value.
Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles
#38. If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.
Trey Smith
#39. 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
#40. You taught me how to be alone. And I learned my lesson, in your absence.
Pleasefindthis
#42. You haunt me, Mina. Even before I knew you, I felt your absence.
Ava Zavora
#43. One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
Marina Tsvetaeva
#44. Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
Dan Millman
#45. I still smell your absence on my skin. It smells of insomnia and rusted key locks...
Malak El Halabi
#46. When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.
Curt Schilling
#47. 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
#48. Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow your enemies into smithereens.
Sean Hannity
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.
Ann Aguirre
#52. I still have a lot of growing to do
and I know there is more room for it
in your absence.
Trista Mateer
#53. 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.
Andrew Williams
#54. On the scale of desire, your absence weighs more than someone else's presence
Jeffrey McDaniel
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.
Shelagh Delaney
#59. A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but its absence guarantees some measure of anxiety, frustration, or despair.
Nathaniel Branden
#60. 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
#61. Her scent
on the sheets
slowly fading
like the last notes
of your favourite song
drifting into silence;
a ghost of absence
haunting the room
Kirk Diedrich
#62. Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
Bill Bryson
#63. ... I touch your absence here
Remembering the speeches of your hair.
Carlos A. Angeles
#64. So many people condemn me for risk taking, but I find it sort of hypocritical because everybody takes risks. Even the absence of activity could be viewed as a risk. If you sit on the sofa for your entire life, you're running a higher risk of getting heart disease and cancer.
Alex Honnold
#66. And so I'll wish you safe wonderings, an utter absence of distasteful suitors, and many more days of sunshine for your hatless head.
Kiersten White
#67. 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
#68. No mistake. I shall regret the absence of your keen mind. Unfortunately it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.
Gary Cooper
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.
Neil Gaiman
#74. 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
#75. The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you.
Arianna Huffington
#76. A momentary presence of a person, at times, can comfortably numb his absence in your life.
Novoneel Chakraborty
#77. Because, when I was away, I couldn't stop thinking about you. Part of me said, yes, it was the right thing to do, for your sake; part of me recognized the kind of man I am, the kind of work I do, the utter impossibility of it. But the other part of me ... I felt your absence like a wound.
Juliet Marillier
#78. 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
#79. Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.
Donald Hall
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. ...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.
Terrence Real
#83. You can decorate absence however you want- but your still gonna feel what's missing.
Siobhan Vivian
#85. 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
#86. Fears about money inhibit your wealth attraction powers. Absence of fears about money releases your full wealth attraction power.
Dan S. Kennedy
#87. 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
#88. With your absence I have realised that hoe the once, warm comforting streets have suddenly turned to become so cold and dark
Kiran Joshi
#89. 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
#90. Your absence in my life is testing me every second. It has gifted me incompleteness, pain, and hope.
Rohit Sharma
#91. You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.
Rumi
#92. Separation
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
W.S. Merwin
#93. When you start paying attention to diversity, you notice it (and notice its absence!). And based on the culture of your upbringing and the culture of your organization, you may or may not be primed to think consciously about innovation.
David Livermore
#94. Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.
Joko Beck
#95. When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn't become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.
Shaun Hick
#96. When your life is working there will be an absence of drama
Iyanla Vanzant
#97. I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that contemplating their absence feels as strange as imagining having never been born yourself.
Walter Kirn
#98. You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
Isabel Allende
#99. Never fear Love's absence in your life, because it already exists within you, in great abundance.
Eleesha
