Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

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.

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

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

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.

Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.

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.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be.

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered, courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it's choosing to act in spite of the fear. You could say that without fear, you can't have genuine courage.

In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.

Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.

In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.

In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

In the absence of observers, our universe is dead

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.