Absence Quotes

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back.

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.