Absence Quotes · Page 4

Courage is not the absence of fear

— Richard Stengel

“No whereto in the absence of space.”

— Toba Beta

The absent feel and fear every ill.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Worry is absence of faith.”

— Paul Palnik

Conspicuous by his absence.

— Tacitus

Absence makes the Heart grows fonder

— Richie

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Silence is not absence. It is waiting.”

— Santosh Kalwar

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

— Ally Condie

Make your absence felt to those who dont appreciate your presence.

— Anonymous

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

— Hannah More

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

— Stacy Schiff

Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

— Mignon McLaughlin

. . . 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

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex…

— Julius Lester

The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.

— Ravi Zacharias

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

— William James

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living…

— Mitch Leigh

“Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for…

— Anonymous

Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack…

— Jacques Diouf

If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's…

— Terence McKenna

“When the river of emotions bursts its banks and expectations go over the edges of reality, the brain creates hallucinations. Ringxiety-stricken people…

— Erik Pevernagie

If there is an ‘overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when…

— Elena Kagan

We are natural partners [with Japan] in the world and the Far East, but the absence of a peace treaty does not…

— Vladimir Putin

“Return, while night clatters and mirrors open and everything tears inside because of your absence. Everything wants to get on with the…

— Alejandra Pizarnik

Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in…

— Lysa TerKeurst

Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health…

— William Osler

I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made…

— Li-Young Lee

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

— Tahereh Mafi

The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come…

— Milan Kundera

Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [...] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him…

— Anonymous

The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of…

— Carl Sagan

Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at…

— Havelock Ellis

There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice…

— James E. Faust