Absence Quotes

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.

The problem with death is absence

I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.

In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to be steady in ahimsa (absence of violence).

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

In the absence of observers, our universe is dead

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.

When your life is working there will be an absence of drama

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Relaxation is the absence of worry.

There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time

Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

We have really no absent friends.

The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.

The absence of fear is love.

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.