Absence Quotes · Page 27

. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.

— Donald M. MacKinnon

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Hell is the absence of the people you long for.

— Emily St. John Mandel

IF my absence is not felt, ,.. then my presence is joke.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“The only way I can bear his absence is to keep looking for his presence.”

— Heather Tucker

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

— Deborah Tannen

The best way to get even, is to forgive and forget.

— Anonymous

Your absence been has so long that your presence doesn't matter anymore.

— Anonymous

“... wondering how it was that one person's absence could rob the day so wholly of its shape and meaning.”

— Kate Morton

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

— Anonymous

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of…

— Gail Carriger

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run…

— James Dashner

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

— Herodotus

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in…

— Epicurus

The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.

— Tom Rath

When you hear that your neighbor or friend has reproached you in your absence or presence, then show love and praise him.

— John Climacus

Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought…

— Eckhart Tolle

When I ask Plutarch about his absence, he just shakes his head and says, "He couldnt face it." "Haymitch? Not able to…

— Suzanne Collins

The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly…

— John Carroll

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from…

— C. S. Lewis

I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed…

— George Combe

If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . .…

— Frank Knight

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for…

— Suzanne Collins

Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya…

— Swami Vivekananda

Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin…

— Paolo Giordano

The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special…

— Leo Tolstoy

Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them.…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida…

— Lawton Chiles

All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant…

— Irwin Schiff

Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train…

— Akhil Sharma

While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine…

— Ravi Zacharias

“If this turns to friendship, it only means That one of us will suffer. That when we meet after the worst of…

— Cyril Wong

“Selfishness is the absence of selflessness”

— Thabiso Monkoe

“This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.”

— Shaun Hick

“there is no absence that cannot be replaced”

— René Char

“Absence of something can not dismiss the presence of anything.”

— SFathima

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

— Elena Ferrante

Chris' absence is very much felt. There's just a huge void in our home life.

— Dana Reeve

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

— Samuel Butler

“My absence was gradual, until one day it was complete.”

— Miguel Syjuco