Absence Quotes

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

— Swami Vivekananda

The absent are always in the wrong

— Anonymous

Judicious absence is a weapon.

— Charles Reade

“In absence, presence. In death, life.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Absence makes the heart go yonder.

— Nikhil Saluja

“Darkness is the absence of light.”

— Kamal Ravikant

“What was dark but the absence of light?”

— Josh Malerman

Absence makes thy heart grow fonder

— Anonymus

“But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

— Gordon Chang

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

“She felt it when she woke, not a presence but an absence.”

— Paula Hawkins

“But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.

— Robert Fritz

When your life is working there will be an absence of drama

— Iyanla Vanzant

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

— Judith Viorst

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

— Erwin McManus

In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects...…

— Michael Fullan

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot…

— Curt Schilling

Salt Has A Unique Nature, Its Presence Was Not Being Felt, But Its Absence Makes Things TASTELESS. Make Your Absence Noticable, Be…

— Pacifiersucker

: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning…

— Guillermo del Toro

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

— Bill Hybels

True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the…

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to…

— Barack Obama

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by…

— Winona LaDuke

Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual,…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it…

— Nicole Krauss

Given the ... multidisciplinary philosophy, I was surprised by the absence of alternative pain approaches - the whole spectrum of cranial-sacral massage,…

— Marni Jackson

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then…

— Tammy Bruce

The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way.…

— Carl F. H. Henry

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse…

— Mark Twain

I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them…

— Lynn Nottage

As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content…

— John Paul Stevens

He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed…

— Mark Helprin

“She sheltered her colors in the dark, where others were blind to see; I caught a glimpse of her lastly when she…

— Anthony Liccione

And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility…

— Mark Buchanan

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

With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the…

— Rajneesh