#absence

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

— Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

#long-distance-love #longing #love #separation #love

Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence? ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#audrey-niffenegger #love #the-time-traveler-s-wife #love

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#happiness #happy #joy #pain #relief

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#evidence #medicine #quip #wordplay #medicine

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#absent #blots #friends #out #people

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#caress #done #dreams #good #good works

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

— William Cowper

#death #despair #frustrates #hope #love

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

— Patti Davis

#as far as #else #false #far #hope

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#any #court #deliberate #disrespectful #fear

The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need. ↗

— Nancy Travis

#alarming #almost #care #china #cities