Absence Quotes
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.
The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges us
Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.
From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.
A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching the romantic movie, but love in a sense of no absence.
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
The truth is there's so many great TV shows out there now that none of us take absence of awards personally. The most important feedback is the feedback we get from the fans.
Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.
Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.
We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.
Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.
The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good
for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.
: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.
Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.
Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.
An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence
Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.
At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE
The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.
Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.
I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.
That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation.
Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.
There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.
Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.
What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.
Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem very impressive for quite a long while.
We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.
Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.
I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable.
You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders of absence and emptiness. Look for new awakenings. Be open to rebirth.
