158 quotes found
“Unfailing friends are essential, when ‘presence’ and ‘absence’ are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and woe, while passion and lust for life are trampled. Reliabl...”
“You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you’re lik...”
“The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.”
“You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.”
“Smartass Disciple: Master, where is exactly the edge of this universe ?Master of Stupidity: Edge is wherever the absence of universal gravity.”
“How people feel when they are returning home from an absence, long or short, I did not know: I had never experienced the sensation. I had known what it was to come back to Gateshead when a child af...”
“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...”
“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...”
“Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.”
“The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.”
“My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.”
“With your absence I have realised that hoe the once, warm comforting streets have suddenly turned to become so cold and dark”
“And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.”
“Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?”
“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.”
“Sometimes when one person is missing the whole world seems depopulated.”
“Absent in body but present in spirit.”
“Achilles absent was Achilles still.”
