#Absence

"And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else."

"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."

"Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god."

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

"It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that."

"Absence - that common cure of love."

"Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery."

"It’s better if you don’t come at all, then come and act like you don’t want to be here. The same applies to there, when I’m there, which is also confusingly here, though it’s not here it’s there."

"There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]"

"Words are magic. They have the power to hurt and to heal, and even withholding them has the power to hurt and to heal. What else has as much potency in its absence and can do without doing? What I mean is, even when you don’t say anything, you are communicating as effectively as if you’d spoken."

"Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace."

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."

"Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence."

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great."

"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."

"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."

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

"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions."

"It’s not who you know that matters—it’s who knows you that’s important. Personal branding builds up your reputation to the point where you have a presence even in your absence."

"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."