Absence Quotes · Page 17

Silence is not the absence of anything, but the presence of everything.

— Swami Premodaya

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

— Marcel Carne

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

— Charles M. Schulz

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

— Chapman Cohen

All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation.

— Thomas Leonard

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

— Salman Rushdie

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

— Alison Bechdel

The rise of Hamas is a product of the failures of political will in the international community, of the absence of the…

— Hanan Ashrawi

Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it…

— Stefanie Schneider

I realize now more than ever how much you really mean to me cuz when I can't hear your voice I feel…

— Antique Doll

The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.

— Dallin H. Oaks

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

— Roland Barthes

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

— Tony Blair

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

— John Berger

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The difference between play and what is regarded as serious employment should be not a difference between the presence and absence of…

— John Dewey

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not…

— Audrey Niffenegger

The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as…

— Sallust

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more…

— Muhammad Yunus

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,…

— Oliver Goldsmith

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence…

— Elon Musk

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of…

— Bertrand Russell

Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by…

— Samuel Johnson

Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is…

— Frederick Buechner

Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a…

— Richard Florida

There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise…

— Arthur Miller

Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at…

— Alfred Binet

What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly.…

— Krishnananda Saraswati

Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally;…

— John Eldredge

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

— David Remnick

Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

— Marshall McLuhan

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

— Brandon Sanderson

“Home is where somebody notices your absence.”

— Aleksandar Hemon

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.”

— Hasse Jerner

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

— M. Scott Peck