Best 538 quotes in «absence quotes» category

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

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

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

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

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

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

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

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.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

Never find fault with the absent.

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

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

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.

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.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.

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

Parting is such sweet sorrow

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.

Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.

Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

Real bliss is the absence of the wanting of bliss

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

Redneck is: the glorious absence of sophistication

Relaxation is the absence of worry.

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.