absence quotes

White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

I dote on his very absence.

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

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.