It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
John SteinbeckAbsence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
Roger de RabutinTags: love separation longing absence long-distance-love
How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.
E.L. KonigsburgTags: absence
Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: wordplay medicine quip evidence absence
You can decorate absence however you want- but your still gonna feel what’s missing.
Siobhan VivianSmartass Disciple: Master, where is exactly the edge of this universe ?
Master of Stupidity: Edge is wherever the absence of universal gravity.
Tags: universe gravity absence edge
Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..."
He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow.
"You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich.
"You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?"
"Even now," the woman says firmly.
Tags: fear kindness past love forgiveness guilt help absence asking request
What? Do you dare smile and suggest for a moment that just because of the Absence between us I cannot make myself vivid to you? Ho! Silly boy! Don't you know that the plainest sort of black ink throbs more than some blood—and the touch of the softest hand is a harsh caress compared to the touch of a reasonably shrewd pen? Here—now, I say—this very moment: Lift this letter of mine to your face, and swear—if you're honestly able to—that you can't smell the rose in my hair!
Eleanor Hallowell AbbottTags: letter absence love-letter
Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
Ann BrasharesTags: life happiness lesson love peace sex weapon absence
Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?
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