“Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.” — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears. — John McCain Copy Share Image
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries. — Shirley Boone Copy Share Image
In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme. — Prince William of Hesse-Kassel Copy Share Image
Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Do policy makers have the knowledge and… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone.… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Neymar has the capability to be a leader in the absence of Leo. He's one of those players who can make the… — Sergio Busquets Copy Share Image
Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Absence Is To Love, What The Wind Is To Fire, When It's a Small Fire The Wind Kills It But When It's… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
Absence never makes the heart grow fonder because those who are out of sight are out of mind. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe. — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I don't like the new you, I would do anything for the old you. I miss the old you, not the new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The absence of wish, to analysis yourself, the surrounding world, and what you are doing. Is the logical, and philosophical proof, of… — VicDo Copy Share Image
We will always miss Balasaheb, but I will work hard to ensure that his absence is not felt politically. — Uddhav Thackeray Copy Share Image
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Learn how to give your absence to those who don't appreciate your presence, in the end you will make them realize how… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
When I was younger, loneliness was really scary - it felt like an absence - and now I feel human beings are… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye… — Joe Bolton Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires. — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would… — John Green Copy Share Image
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
