158 quotes found
“Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin except to be there when he doesn't want her.”
“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.”
“It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.”
“Sometimes when one person is missing the whole world seems depopulated.”
“The absent are always wrong.”
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
“Absent in body but present in spirit.”
“Achilles absent was Achilles still.”
“Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.”
“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 pr...”
“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 reper...”
“The absence of ‘criticism’ is not Appreciation!!!”
“Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!”
“If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are lette...”
“Because freedom and liberty and equality are as vital as breath, we only notice their absence when we are left gasping when the colors of diversity and individual liberty are drained from the world...”
“I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.”
“Sometimes absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. Sometimes it just makes the heart hurt.”
“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.”
“The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring himself to reply. Six years later my mother's absen...”
“7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.”
