Absence Quotes - Page 9

• I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Mirrors, Light, Offering

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• My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade away for my eyes restores me as a complete image for the unreal eye to which I deny all images. A complete image with reference to a world devoid of image which imagines me in the absence of any imaginable figure. The being of a nonbeing of which I am the infinitely small negation which it instigates as its profound harmony. In the night shall I become the universe?

  Maurice Blanchot

  Eye, Night, Views

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• Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. The power that lay within both their souls had met, and, as it were, clasped hands. They accepted one another's sacrifice. Hers, mayhap, was the more complete of the two, because for her his absence would mean weary waiting, the dull heartache so terrible to bear.

  Baroness Orczy

  Mean, Sacrifice, Hands

  Baroness Orczy (2011). “The First Sir Percy”, p.76, House of Stratus

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• Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

  John Eldredge

  Jesus, Danger, Found

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Grieving, Sky

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

  Coco Chanel

  Lying, Luxury, Richness

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• Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Writing, Epidemics

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• It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no music, there's no dah-dah-daaahhs. There's no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on.

  Kevin Brooks

  Drama, Real, Cameras

  Kevin Brooks (2003). “Martyn Pig”, p.33, Scholastic

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• Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Government, Order

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• One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Book, Writing, Suffering

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2017). “Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922”, p.154, New York Review of Books

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• I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Feelings, Intense, Not Sure

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• The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone leaves must be filled, so we dream forever of those who are no longer here. Our minds make them live again.

  Anna Funder

  Dream, Running, Space

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• A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!

  Farid al-Din Attar

  Kings, Men, Grieving

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• Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

  Gayle Forman

  Relationship, Break Up, Missing Someone

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Oct 07, 2015

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• In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Struggle, People, Judging

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• Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.

  J.R. Ward

  Air, Perfection, Silence

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.973, Penguin

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• Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Success, School, Impact

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• solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

  Paulo Coelho

  Solitude, Complement

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• Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

  Alison Bechdel

  Grief, Form, Including

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soul, Solitude, Helping

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• She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.

  Clive Barker

  Wanted, Offers

  Clive Barker (1991). “The Hellbound Heart”, Voyager

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• You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Hurt, Pain, Doctors

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• When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

  Anne Michaels

  Dark, Sea, Cities

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.55, A&C Black

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• If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.

  Erich Fromm

  Commitment, Reflection, Self

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• During their separation, something had happened to Annabeth's feelings. They'd grown painfully intense-like she'd been forced to withdraw from a life-saving medication. Now she wasn't sure which was more excruciating-living with that horrible absence, or being with him again.

  Rick Riordan

  Feelings, Annabeth, Saving

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