Absence Quotes

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

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.

It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral triumph.

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.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives

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

I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

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.

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist .

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

The color white is the absence of memory.

But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest.

The absence of him is everywhere I look.

The strongest presence is so often an absence.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.

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

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.

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.

Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

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

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

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.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

Absence Is To Love, What The Wind Is To Fire, When It's a Small Fire The Wind Kills It But When It's a Real Fire It Intensifies It

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.

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

In youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure.

There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God.

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

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