158 quotes found
“Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?”
“Youre lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and youve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when youre like t...”
“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 w...”
“The irony of the human heart is that its tormented both by the presence and absence of its own souls counterpart.”
“You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.”
“When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.”
“Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in t...”
“She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were bad non-truths, even, but he nodded and tried to convince himself to be convinc...”
“When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the standards of others. Empathy and connectedness, however, might bridge the gap, by stirring our conscio...”
“they comedifferent and the samewith each it is different and the samewith each the absence of love is differentwith each the absence of love is the same”
“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.”
“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly round him, feeling the ceaseless thumping of his heart i...”
“Smartass Disciple: Master, where is exactly the edge of this universe ?Master of Stupidity: Edge is wherever the absence of universal gravity.”
“The absence of the spirit of gratitude in one's heart, always hinders the presence of happiness in one's life.”
“She affected me, even when she was absent.”
“Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty an...”
“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...”
“High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!”
“There is a hole in the heart called "absence". You live in it my dear.”
“It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this in itself is bearable enough; for we do not weep at their being absent or intending to be a...”
