Absence Quotes

Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.

In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

The absence of him is everywhere I look.

All those lavenders seemed purple in love they turned lilac without him.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.