Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Parting is such sweet sorrow

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

Real bliss is the absence of the wanting of bliss

Redneck is: the glorious absence of sophistication

Relaxation is the absence of worry.

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

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.

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

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.

Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things.” "Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be shot.

Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

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

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.

The absence of hope can rot a society from within.