Absence Quotes · Page 8

“The absence of memory sears.”

— A.R. Kahler

Consensus is the absence of leadership.

— Margaret Thatcher

Love has no value in the absence of truth.

— Anonymous

How do u say Goodbye?? :(

— Nushra

Smile makes your day lighten

— Donna Louise

Absence of occupation is not rest.

— William Cowper

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

— Rajneesh

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

— Michel de Certeau

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

— Ashleigh Brilliant

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

— Ally Condie

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Abstinence makes the arm grow stronger.

— Anonymous

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

— Orson Welles

“I will always be conscious of your absence.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“A positive mindset alone in the absence of hard work will get you nowhere.”

— Ken Poirot

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

— Helen Keller

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

— Nick Rahall

I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and…

— Rumi

True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

— Barton Gellman

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

— Junot Diaz

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

— Koichiro Matsuura

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in…

— Laura Hillenbrand

I took a leave of absence for a year to coach at San Francisco State under Vic Rowen, fully intending to go…

— Mike Holmgren

Its stupid how your ex says to you I'm here if you ever need me. where the hell were you when we…

— Anonymous

I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling…

— Jacqueline Woodson

No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a…

— David Brainerd

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other…

— Simone Weil

There is a Silence that is totally impersonal. It is not the fruit of anybody’s work. Peace is there, but there is…

— Mooji

Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain…

— Rudolf Steiner

The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches…

— Victor Hugo

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the…

— Dan Savage

She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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