Absence famous quotes

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

#Library #Shade #Absence

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.
-- Alcibiades

#Long Distance Relationship #Delight #Absence

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.
-- Alexander Sutherland Neill

#Family #Children #Absence

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Literature #Absence

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief
-- Alison Bechdel

#Grief #Absence #Form

We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.
-- Alistair Begg

#Adversity #Absence #Should

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
-- Ally Condie

#Strange #Absence #Feels

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.
-- Amrita Pritam

#Flower #Violence #Absence

In the absence of observers, our universe is dead
-- Andrei Linde

#Absence #Universe

Darkness is only light's absence.
-- Andrew Clements

#Light #Darkness #Absence

But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Fighting #Absence #Stomach

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
-- Anna Howard Shaw

#Love #Peace #Absence

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
-- Anthony de Mello

#Love #Absence #Masters

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
-- Antonin Artaud

#Order #Absence #Feels

Why is love intensified by absence?
-- Audrey Niffenegger

#Life #Absence

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Mind #Absence #Individual

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.
-- B. F. Skinner

#Absence #Force #Restraint

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich

#Doe #Absence #Endure

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Doctrine #Tradition #Absence

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
-- Bear Grylls

#Brave #Way #Absence

Being oppressed means the absence of choices
-- Bell Hooks

#Mean #Choices #Absence

I believe absence is a great element of charm.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Believe #Elements #Absence

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
-- Bernard Cornwell

#Magic #Doe #Absence

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore
-- Bob Goff

#Calling #Absence #Shots

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.
-- Bob Kane

#Bills #Absence #Fingers

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
-- Brendan Behan

#Life #Absence #Court

The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.
-- Bruce Lee

#Taken #Mind #Absence

In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered, courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it's choosing to act in spite of the fear. You could say that without fear, you can't have genuine courage.
-- Bruce Wilkinson

#Strong #Ordinary #Absence

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
-- Bryan Appleyard

#World #May #Absence

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.
-- C.J. Langenhoven

#Enemy #Absence

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived
-- Cameron Dokey

#Miracle #Absence

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
-- Carl Sagan

#Absence #Evidence

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
-- Carlos Fuentes

#Isolation #Absence #Filled

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Forget #Absence #Made

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.
-- Chapman Cohen

#Atheism #Belief #Absence

The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature.
-- Charles Darwin

#Groups #Links #Absence

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
-- Charles Lamb

#Mind #Body #Absence

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#Home #Men #Absence

The absence of fear is love.
-- Chris Murphy

#Fear #Absence

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.
-- Daisy Ashford

#Ashes #Absence #Grapes

Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.
-- Dalai Lama

#Inner Peace #Violence #Absence

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.
-- Danny Silk

#Chaos #Conflict #Absence

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.
-- Dennis Covington

#Mystery #Absence

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
-- Derek Bailey

#Thinking #Play #Absence

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#Sick #Absence #Fallen

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
-- Donald E. Williams, Jr.

#Ironic #Absence #Decorum

. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.
-- Donald M. MacKinnon

#Way #Problem #Absence

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence
-- Donald Rumsfeld

#Absence #Evidence

When a person disappears, everything becomes impregnated with that person's presence. Every single object as well as every space becomes a reminder of absence, as if absence were more important than presence.
-- Doris Salcedo

#Space #Important #Absence

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.
-- E. L. Konigsburg

#Missing #Absence #Mets

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
-- Ed Bliss

#Failure #Mean #Absence

Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate
-- Edmund Spenser

#Mourning #Absence #Mates

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

#Inspirational #Trials #Absence

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Bugs #Absence #Program

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.
-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Bugs #Absence #Programming

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.
-- Elena Ferrante

#Absence #Anonymity

We have really no absent friends.
-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Absence #Absent

If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If
-- Esther Hicks

#Want #Absence #Reason

Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
-- Eugene Delacroix

#Costumes #Absence #Modern

Competition is merely the absence of oppression.
-- Frederic Bastiat

#Competition #Oppression #Absence

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Opponents #Virtue #Absence

What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.
-- Gary Zukav

#Light #Evil #Absence

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.
-- Gayle Forman

#Space #Sometimes #Absence

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.
-- Gayle Forman

#Feelings #Absence #Calculus

With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.
-- Geno Auriemma

#Pressure #Absence #Great Things

The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence.
-- George Sarton

#Pie #Way #Absence

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.
-- Gerald Brenan

#Grief #Missing #Absence

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
-- Gilles Deleuze

#Men #Landscape #Absence

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
-- Hans Urs von Balthasar

#Men #Faces #Absence

Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.
-- Helen Lynd

#Freedom #Absence #Timeless

Peace must be more than the absence of war.
-- Helmut Kohl

#War #Absence

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.
-- Heloise

#Self #Absence

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE
-- Henri Frederic Amiel

#Soul #Elements #Absence

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
-- Henry Adams

#Responsibility #Liberty #Absence

The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.
-- Henry Steele Commager

#Absence #Danger #Orthodox

The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.
-- Henry Steele Commager

#Faces #Kind #Absence

Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.
-- Hermann Adler

#Absence #Source #Strife

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Love #Long #Absence

Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.
-- Horatius Bonar

#Want #Recognition #Absence

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
-- Idries Shah

#May #Wonderful #Absence

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.
-- Irshad Manji

#Important #Recognition #Absence

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
-- Isaac Newton

#Thumbs #Absence #Proof

We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke an indefinable impression: as a result of this sighting backward in time, the absence of the object becomes a presence one can feel.
-- Ivan Chtcheglov

#Firsts #Absence #Results

Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.
-- J. D. Greear

#Jesus #Doubt #Absence

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
-- Jacques Lacan

#Absence #Units #Symbols

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.
-- Jalal Talabani

#Country #Iraq #Absence

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.
-- James Fox

#Punishment #Despair #Absence

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
-- James Howell

#Distance #Sometimes #Absence

Absence, the highest form of presence.
-- James Joyce

#Absence #Form

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
-- James M. Barrie

#Heart #Absence #Forgetful

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
-- James Neil Hollingworth

#Courage #Judgement #Absence

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not,
-- Janet Yellen

#Routine #Employment #Absence

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

#Men #Solitude #Absence

Your absence weighs more than someone else’s presence
-- Jeffrey McDaniel

#Absence #Your Absence

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.
-- Jeffrey Zeldman

#Design #Absence #Decoration

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Generosity #Giving #Absence

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Opportunity #Absence #Wells

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.
-- John Cusack

#Absence

Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
-- John Eldredge

#Jesus #Absence #Danger

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
-- John Peter Zenger

#Leadership #Weakness #Absence