Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

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

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.

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

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.

Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

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

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

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

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

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

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.

My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.

No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!

Never find fault with the absent.

Nothing good or great can be done in the absence of enthusiasm.

No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

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.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

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

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

Parting is such sweet sorrow

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

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

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.

Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.

. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

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.

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

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.