Absence Quotes

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.

Love is the absence of Anxiety.

Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

Friends, though absent, are still present.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.

Real bliss is the absence of the wanting of bliss

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.

Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

Art is the absence of fear.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.