Quotes about Absence
It is out of the absence of God that God makes himself present.
— Frederick Buechner
The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love.
— Frederick Buechner
If there were no emptiness, there would be no life.
— Margaret Atwood
I didn't want to identify the body, or see it at all. If you don't see the body, it's easier to believe nobody's dead.
— Margaret Atwood
Part of the life she should have had is just a gap, it isn't there, it's nothing.
— Margaret Atwood
With his taper stuck before him he forgot the absence of windows, and in bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about the solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight.
— George Eliot
Let the music which can take the possession of our frame and fill the air with joy for us, sound once more - what does it signify that we heard it found fault with in its absence?
— George Eliot
For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?
— St. Augustine
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.
— Samuel Johnson
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
— Samuel Johnson
If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
— RC Sproul
Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.
— John Owen