Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
— Edmond de Goncourt
Delightful Absence Love quotations
Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.
Absence -- that common cure of love.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Absence - that common cure of love.
Love is the absence of judgment.
Courage is not the absence of fear...
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
Enlightenment is not something you achieve.
It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.
Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.
Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence.
It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.