Quotes about Absence

When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

It's good to have you back, David. We missed you while you were away.

The absence of regret makes no guarantee of the absence of pain.

What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.

It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man's refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem which besets us.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Your way of being present to your community may require times of absence, prayer, writing, or solitude. These too are times for your community.

Around the table, we know whether there is friendship and community or hatred and division. Precisely because the table is the place of intimacy for all the members of the household, it is also the place where the absence of that intimacy is most painfully revealed.

Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that God's voice makes in a world that has explained him away. In such a world, I suspect that maybe God speaks to us most clearly through his silence, his absence, so that we know him best through our missing him.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.