Absence Quotes

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.

This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.

You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.

For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.

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

Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.

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.

But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.

True friends don't say good-bye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.

The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However, how to do this is a complicated issue.

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

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

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

The rise of Hamas is a product of the failures of political will in the international community, of the absence of the peace process, of the increase in violence and ideology.

In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

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.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate insurance coverage from extreme weather events.

Passion, this absolute desire that can never be filled when it is driven by the absence of the other.

Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.

Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.

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

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

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

Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

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

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

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

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.

And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.

Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.