Quotes about Absence

I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

I don't miss doing things with her. I miss doing nothing with her.

I'd rather be nowhere with her then somewhere without her.

When will the others come? And there is one who will never come. At least we will not see him if he does. But, oh, when I think he will be there--when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shadow army with them--the army of the fallen. We will not *see* them--but they will be there!

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

May the Lord watch between thee and me while we are absent the one from the other.

The three of us sat at the table, and it seemed as though about six people were missing.

We all need the pendulum swing of snatching spaces of solitude and serving tables of sociability. In fact, the more plugged in and connected we are, the more we need to unplug and disconnect. A world of presence needs a time of absence.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

Lately, she's been wondering if perhaps when the living become the dead they leave an empty space behind, a hollow no one else can fill.

People all over town had listened for my grandfather's cries, but there were none. Only silence.