Absence Quotes

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.

Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

Conspicuous by his absence.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation.

I dote on his very absence.

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

Woman absent is woman dead.

The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.

The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of the truth.

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.

The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

Hell is the absence of the people you long for.

Meditation is humility - the absence of thought, doubt, and ego.

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.

The absence of war is not peace.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.

How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.