Quotes of: Absence Keyword

You just know something is amiss, when you look at someone and long for something that is not yours or you cannot have. It's an absence--a loss of a heartbeat.

Burning Bridges

Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

The Book of My Lives

...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Ferg...

Jesse Jackson

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill tha...

Ntozake Shange

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

The Autobiography of God

The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure.

The Accidental Siren

The absence of theistic belief... { }

A Rationalist Encyclopedia: a Book of Reference on Religion Philosophy Ethics and Science

I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.

In the Shadow of the Banyan

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

State of Fear

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

New Selected Poems

This is, perhaps, the greatest challenge of our time – to love in the absence of any immediate rewards for our love.

The Love Mindset

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, until it stops beating. Getting ripped out of the chest tends to have that effect.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

Principal Doctrines

Each memory was now the shadow of a shadow of a shadow. The only thing that remained tangible to him was the sense of absence.

Tony Takitani

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

The Time Traveler's Wife

I once feared death. It is said that death begins with the absence of life. And life begins when death is no longer feared. I have stared death in the eye and survived.

Whale Song

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by t...

George Saintsbury

In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes.

Pieter Zeeman

Being with Demetri wasn’t the absence of pain, it was the added presence of peace, making it easier and easier for that little part of my heart to heal again.--From Pull: A Seaside Novel

Rachel Van Dyken

To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.

Samuel Lover