Absence Quotes · Page 14

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Absence of failure does not constitute success.

— Chris Alexander

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

— Anonymous

“I have missed you. I have hidden from the ache of your absence.”

— Priscilla Sibley

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

— John Connolly

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

— Simon Mawer

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow…

— Anonymous

Always make your absence felt in such a way that somebody misses you, but don't let your absence be so long, that…

— Nishan Panwar

Russia's Vladimir Putin appeared in public for the first time after a mysterious 10-day absence. Putin said it took him that long…

— Conan O'Brien

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

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

— C. J. Mahaney

“Absence is to love what the wind is to fire. A brief absence stirs it like a gentle breeze, making the flames…

— Shahid Hussain Raja

I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating…

— Marwan Barghouti

In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I…

— Anonymous

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's…

— Penn Jillette

We know that Las Vegas is junk, but at the same time I think that exactly the same process and ultimately also,…

— Rem Koolhaas

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor…

— Bram Fischer

With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was…

— Matt Groening

The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone,…

— Swami Vivekananda

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that…

— Alice Sebold

Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is…

— Frederick Buechner

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise…

— Arthur Miller

There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a…

— Richard Florida

I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of…

— Wendell Berry

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth…

— Nelson Mandela

Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic…

— Milan Kundera

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

— Richard Whately

“If they don't appreciate your presence, they may never recognize your absence.”

— Najwa Zebian

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.

— Amrita Pritam

In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.

— Oren Lyons

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.

— Anonymous

I'm sorry my recent absence from work caused you to have to do your own work.

— Anonymous

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

— Charles M. Schulz