Absence Quotes

We often think of absence as just a void, an empty space, a silent sound. But after all these years spent amidst bookshelves, I've realized that absence is never a void at all.

It's a presence of another kind, sometimes heavier and clearer than presence itself. It's a memory that aches, a lingering scent of perfume in the air, or a book left open on a certain page by someone who never returned to close it. It's the untold story, the unspoken word, the unfulfilled promise. Absence carves deep furrows in our hearts, leaving us space to contemplate the value of what we've lost.

Reflect on these profound quotes that unveil the secrets of absence, touch the pain of separation, and evoke the specter of the distant one.

Quote by Rumi: I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sl...
Quote by François de La Rochefoucauld: Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and ...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting....
Quote by Rumi: When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for ...
Quote by Rabindranath Tagore: Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my slee...
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autum...
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted awa...
Quote by William Shakespeare: Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it ...
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas unde...
Quote by C.S. Lewis: The absent are easily refuted....
Quote by William Shakespeare: From you have I been absent in the spring,When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim,Hath put a ...
Quote by François de La Rochefoucauld: Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but f...
Quote by Albert Camus: I was absent at the moment I took up the most space....
Quote by William Shakespeare: A great cause of the night is lack of the sun....
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt witho...
Quote by François de La Rochefoucauld: Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but ...
Quote by William Shakespeare: Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an a...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is fil...
Quote by Dr. Seuss: Poor empty pants With nobody inside them....
Quote by Robert Frost: I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses f...
Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt: Absence makes the heart grow fonder...
Quote by George Washington: The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circums...
Quote by William Shakespeare: I dote on his very absence....
Quote by William Shakespeare: What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hoursMore t...
Quote by William Shakespeare: She's good, being gone....
Quote by H. L. Mencken: Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives....
Quote by Taylor Swift: My thoughts will echo your name until I see you again....
Quote by Euripides: When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst....
Quote by Eminem: My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him....
Quote by C.S. Lewis: Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is on...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive....
Quote by Rumi: You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existenc...
Quote by Robert Frost: One aged man - one man - can't fill a house....
Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness....
Quote by François de La Rochefoucauld: L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, ...
Quote by C.S. Lewis: Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything....
Quote by Nicholas Sparks: Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. S...
Quote by Victor Hugo: When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind....