Absence Quotes
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When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
Sherman Alexie
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler
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Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
William Shakespeare
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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
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The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound.
Tom Stoppard
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For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
Jacques Lacan
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One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid
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Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.
Yvon Chouinard
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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
Andrew Solomon
