622 Quotes About Absence

As light splinters into darkness, new thoughts may take over in the mind and allow upbeat views to gain power. Thus and so, thoughtfulness readily opens a blistering sky in the faltering shadow of unawareness. ("Absence of Desire")

The actuality that the heart does not want to feel, doesn't negate the certitude that it once felt and will still feel.

If I presume the flood that engulfs me to be bigger than the God who surrounds me, the real flood is the absence of my faith.

I don’t wish to explain the existence of God, for the absence of Him does that quite well.

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.

Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. (« A gap of silence”)

Darkness is the place where God is not. Therefore, if I’m sitting in a bunch of darkness I’m living without much of God.

The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.

The absence of God in our lives is a result of our absence of reason, for if He is absent it is because we requested it. So, to have an absence of reason that results in the absence of God leaves me absent of both.