Absence Quotes

“You tasted like fire
And I miss that.
So, at times
I drank a little.
And at times,
I drank too much.
But I only drank
Till it burned me enough.”
― Saiber, Stardust and Sheets

“I just wanted to tell you, how beautiful you were; that day, that night, that life.”
― Anthony Liccione

“She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anonymous. It is not, after all, where you live.

When you no longer need it, you pay a little something for its use; say 'thank you sir,' and when your business in that town is over, you go away from that room. Does anybody regret leaving a hotel room? Does anybody who has a home, a real home somewhere , want to stay there? Does anybody look back with affection of even disgust, at a hotel room when they leave it? You can only love or despise whatever living was done in that room. But the room itself? But you take a souvenir. Not, oh, not to remember the room. To remember, rather, the time and place of your business, your adventure. What can anyone feel for a hotel room? One doesn't any more feel for a hotel room than one expects a hotel room to feel for its occupant.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“You shine brighter than the sun"

"But even the sun goes away every night"

"But it is hte sun's absence that makes us feel its power. We know the loss, the beauty and the life that the moon can't replace. That is why we hang on to each day we are given.”
― Karina Halle, Love, in English

“I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside.”
― Anthony Liccione

“When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Absence makes the heart growl, "Find her.”
― Kirk Diedrich, Junk Shop Heart

“How like a winter hath my absence been
From Thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen,
What old December's bareness everywhere!”
― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“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

“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, Selected Poems 1930–1989

“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, The Untapped Wonderer In You: dare to do the undone

“You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.”
― Richard Brostoff

“I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,
And, thou away, the very birds are mute:
Or, if they sing, ’tis with so dull a cheer,
That leaves look pale, dreading the winter’s near.”
― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“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

“Experiment. Live a little. And remember that the fear of absence is the surest sign that absence is direly needed.”
― Michael Harris

“But thou art with us, with us in the past,
The present, with us in the times to come.
There is no grief, no sorrow, no despair,
No languor, no dejection, no dismay,
No absence scarcely can there be, for those
Who love as we do. Speed thee well!”
― William Wordsworth

“Love and hatred are intertwined in life. They agree to disagree and they disagree to agree. When one is absent the other may become present. In what we hate most lay what we love most and in what we love most lay what we hate most”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints Of Life: where are you heading towards?

“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, The Bette Davis Club

“This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.”
― Shaun Hick

“Would you dare to reach inside the vault of a feral heart?
Glare into the keyhole, eyes bound with intrigue...is it real what we perceive? or does the absent colour leave you lost or decieved?”
― L V HALL

“A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“My mind couldn't fit itself around the shape of his absence.”
― Lia Mills, Fallen

“7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“With your absence I have realised that hoe the once, warm comforting streets have suddenly turned to become so cold and dark”
― Kiran Joshi

“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, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“The absence of wish, to analysis yourself,
the surrounding world,
and what you are doing.
Is the logical, and philosophical proof, of zombie mind, and consciousness.”
― VicDo

“Je commence à comprendre que toute ma vie je souffrirais de l'absence de quelqu'un avec qui partager un mouvement de l'esprit ou de l'âme, une atmosphère commune, une direction. (p65)”
― Christine Fizscher, La dernière femme de sa vie (La Bleue)

“Tears is the voice of heart in pain, in absence of feelings one don't care what you share.”
― Kishore Bansal