Absence Quotes

Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.

Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

Deeply in love with you, I feel the keen pain of your absence.

In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.

I think there are enough professional actors to fill in for me in my absence. I enjoyed it, but I can't imagine a role that would be interesting beyond playing myself.

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.

Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact everywhere.

I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.

When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.

Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

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

In the absence of big budgets, start-ups learned how to hack the system to build their companies.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel. “Just watch me,” he said.

In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

In the absence of fear there is little faith.

The absent feel and fear every ill.

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.

Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

Absence of pain makes anything possible

The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.

She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.