20 Quotes Tagged: absence

It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.

If you can open your mouth to say; I love you! To someone without taking such person(s) as your priority, even with your gifts and money, something more important than your freebie is missing out!

they come
different and the same
with each it is different and the same
with each the absence of love is different
with each the absence of love is the same

A positive mindset alone in the absence of hard work will get you nowhere.

But thou art with us, with us in the past,
The present, with us in the times to come.
There is no grief, no sorrow, no despair,
No languor, no dejection, no dismay,
No absence scarcely can there be, for those
Who love as we do. Speed thee well!

This bed yawns
beneath the weight
of our absent selves.

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more. ... What I dread is the isolation. ... There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.

they come
different and the same
with each it is different and the same
with each the absence of love is different
with each the absence of love is the same

Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

Your body is away from me,
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.