Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived

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.

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

Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

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.

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

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

Friends, though absent, are still present.

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

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

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'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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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"]