Absence Quotes

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

Patience is the absence of expectation.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever.

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices