“Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to love and be subservient together. Nor had he ever thought of me as a human being, let alone a woman. For no reason had he ever softened towards me, I had stirred him that little.” KnowsHumansLittlesReasonTogetherHuman BeingsKnow HowImagineHusbandAbsenceSuperiorsNo ReasonMy HusbandHow To LoveSubservient Book:Blasphemy: A Novel Source: Blasphemy: A Novel
“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.” IfsLoveLifeFeelsFirstsHas BeensTwoBookTodayLostHalfImagineSadnessSadAbsenceVolumeMissing SomeoneIncompleteOther HalfFeeling LonelyLack Of LoveIncompletenessAbsence Love Author:Edmond de Goncourt
“Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.” KnowsMenLoveLooksCountryHomeDreamHandsKnow HowImagineShareDutyBedMen And WomenAbsenceHolding HandsHow To LoveNew Home Author:Albert Camus
“We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war - but rather we are taught to fear each other. We are taught to imagine that the real predators in this world are not those who control prison cells, national debts and nuclear weapons, but rather our fellow citizens, who in the absence of brutal control would surely tear us apart!” WorldWarRealImagineThis WorldTearsTaughtCitizensPoliticianWeaponsFellowsPrisonDebtAbsenceNuclearCellsImagine ThatNuclear WeaponsBrutalCurrencyPredatorNational DebtPrison Cells Author:Stefan Molyneux
“We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.” IfsThinkingWorldLifeMayImportantMovingExistenceImagineBreathsFilledAbsenceCirclesFancyConvinceGapsPausesAlasSomething Better Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon's "Imagine." What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.” PeopleLittlesWarEndsStatesOrderNationsImagineSingingSittingAbsenceCivil WarEmpiresAnarchySitting AroundLennonCampfire Author:Niall Ferguson
“No one is indispensable to anyone else. You imagine you're necessary to him or that he will be very unhappy if you leave him, but I'm sure that if you do, within three months he will have fitted another face into your role and you'll see that no one is suffering because of your absence. You must feel free to do whatever feels best to you. Being someone's nurse is no way to live unless you're unable to do anything else. You have to say something on your own and you ought to be thinking, first and foremost, about that.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsFirstsFacesSufferingThreeRolesImagineMonthsOughtAbsenceUnhappyNurseIndispensableWay To LiveThree MonthsYour AbsenceThinking First Author:Francoise Gilot
“O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.” WantMayLongDifferentSoulBodyWaterImagineLandThousandLongingSatisfactionAbsenceMy SoulDryDifferent ThingsWearyThirstPsalmsReally Long Author:Randy Alcorn
“I think there are enough professional actors to fill in for me in my absence. I enjoyed it, but I can't imagine a role that would be interesting beyond playing myself.” ThinkingI CanEnoughWould BeActorsInterestingRolesImagineAbsenceEnjoyed Author:Lou Dobbs