Quotes on Absence

Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment - and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning.

Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.