Absence Quotes

The absent are always in the wrong

— Anonymous

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

— Swami Vivekananda

“In absence, presence. In death, life.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Judicious absence is a weapon.

— Charles Reade

Absence makes thy heart grow fonder

— Anonymus

“What was dark but the absence of light?”

— Josh Malerman

“Darkness is the absence of light.”

— Kamal Ravikant

Absence makes the heart go yonder.

— Nikhil Saluja

Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.

— Randall "Tex" Cobb

Your Absence is everywhere... I cannot escape your memory...

— Anonymous

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

— Erwin McManus

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

— Judith Viorst

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

— Iyanla Vanzant

In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.

— Robert Fritz

“But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

“She felt it when she woke, not a presence but an absence.”

— Paula Hawkins

Anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls…

— Ann Coulter

Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.

— C. J. Mahaney

Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to its own devices and creates you to…

— Anonymous

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

— Bokar Rinpoche

Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace.…

— J.R. Ward

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I…

— Fanny Kemble

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

— Rumi

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

— John Donne

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder…

— William Booth

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact,…

— Charles M. Blow

No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of…

— Myrtle Reed

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And…

— Ally Carter

In the absence of an engaged, diplomatically energized America, others will set the agenda, shape the rules and dominate international institutions -…

— Antony Blinken

Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest…

— Elizabeth Robins Pennell

The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning…

— Leo Strauss

Anyone who's ever read the lyrics of an already cherished song has most likely encountered that hollow sensation of something missing, the…

— Jonathan Miles

With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the…

— Rajneesh

Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of…

— James Henley Thornwell

And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility…

— Mark Buchanan

“She sheltered her colors in the dark, where others were blind to see; I caught a glimpse of her lastly when she…

— Anthony Liccione

He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed…

— Mark Helprin

As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content…

— John Paul Stevens

I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them…

— Lynn Nottage

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse…

— Mark Twain