Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.

Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Absence of occupation is not rest.

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

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.

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.

Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation.

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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

All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

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

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

A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid

Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.

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.

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

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable.

Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions aren't met, I can't outsource or partner with you because markets don't function in the absence of sufficient information.

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.

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

Consensus is the absence of leadership.