If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.
Héloïse d'ArgenteuilTag: friendship friends letters pleasure memories portraits regret longing company missing consolation absence pictures images
Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!
Héloïse d'ArgenteuilTag: fear love jealousy trust desire separation longing absence reunion urgency
I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..."
"Variety is the spice of life"
"And from a thousand miles apart"
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Tag: life love absence variety
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.
Maya AngelouTag: peace work rest absence vacation break
But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.
Audrey NiffeneggerTag: life present absence dark-bird
Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.
T.F. HodgeTag: self leadership quotes create absence mastery anointed
Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.
Criss JamiTag: motivational true-love god faith suffering adversity unrequited-love absence void unconditional-love broken fill-the-void heart-broken horrific repercussions
Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.
Coco J. GingerTag: love passion heartbreak absence missing-you missing-someone jamie-weise missing-you-quotes
Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by.
Mark Z. DanielewskiYou’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you’re like that, unguarded, than when you’re awake. When you’re awake you’re like someone with her eyes closed, watching a movie on the inside of your eyelids. I can’t reach you anymore. Once upon a time I could, but not now, and not for a long time.
Nicole KraussTag: loneliness absence great-house nicole-krauss
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