Absence Quotes

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore

The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.

If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

The absence of disease is not health.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

[People] don't judge you on what would have happened in the absence of a decision.

Redneck is: the glorious absence of sophistication

It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

The absence of strife does not necessarily indicate the presence of peace.

The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.

Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.

There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.