Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

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

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

Is not absence death to those who love?

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

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.

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

It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

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

I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.

Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.

i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

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.

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.

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.

Never find fault with the absent.