Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Consensus is the absence of leadership.

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

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.

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.

Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is taking a step forward when you are afraid.

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

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

Deeply in love with you, I feel the keen pain of your absence.

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

Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.

Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.

Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

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.

Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.

Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

Faith is the element that builds the bridge in the absence of concrete evidence.

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

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

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.

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived

Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.

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

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Good health is not the absence of symptoms, it is the presence of peace.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.

He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn't bear to keep it, but he couldn't bear to destroy it either.

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

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

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

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.