Absence Quotes

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.

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Good health is not the absence of symptoms, it is the presence of peace.

The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.

The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility