Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.

It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.

i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!

Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

Never find fault with the absent.

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.

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

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.