Absence Quotes

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.

Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

Your absence weighs more than someone else’s presence

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

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.

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.

The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.

Darkness is only light's absence.

Anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls and so on.

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

A negative and toxic person never feels teased with the genuine presence of the pretenders in his network and he always feels pleased with the absence of the genuine leader in his circle.

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird

The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.

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.

For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".

A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back.

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived

It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

Absence of failure does not constitute success.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

Russia's Vladimir Putin appeared in public for the first time after a mysterious 10-day absence. Putin said it took him that long to recover from the finale of 'The Bachelor.'

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.

The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.

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.

I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence.

The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.

In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'

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

Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

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

Hell is God's Absence.

Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."