Absence Quotes

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.

The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme.

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.

Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure.

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

The law of mosaics: how to deal with parts in the absence of wholes.

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.

The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.

A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity.

What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?

Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you hurt your own flesh.

To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.

All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don’t think that that should be perpetuated. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an old farty, snob, but it bothers me.

We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

Nothing good or great can be done in the absence of enthusiasm.

The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.

Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.

The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.

I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.

In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.

Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.