Quotes about Absence
I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?
— Max Lucado
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
— Anonymous
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
— Anonymous
The absence of a thing, can be as deadly as the presence.
— Frank Herbert
Let us pray to God that other gifts may not so satisfy us, that we never grasp the fact that the absence of this grace (humility) is the secret cause why the power of God cannot do its mighty work.
— Andrew Murray
For he contrasts shadows with revelation, and absence with manifestation.
— John Calvin
Dull sublunary lovers' love(Whose soul is sense) cannot admitAbsence, because it doth removeThose things which elemented it.
— John Donne
For I am every dead thing,In whom love wrought new alchemy.For his art did expressA quintessence even from nothingness,From dull privations, and lean emptinessHe ruin'd me, and I am re-begotOf absence, darkness, death; things which are not.
— John Donne
The great thing about the dead, they make space.
— John Updike
Yes, you have been away a very long time. Oh, centuries and centuries; so long, she said, that I'm sure I'm dead and buried, and this dear old place is heaven;
— Edith Wharton
God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
— Albert Einstein
I always feel how necessary you are to me. But when you are absent, I become still more sensible of it and look around in vain for that satisfaction which you alone can bestow.
— Alexander Hamilton