“But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.” — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The youth of Punjab is directionless in the absence of job opportunities which drag them deep into the drug net. — Gurpreet Ghuggi Copy Share Image
The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things. — David Shields Copy Share Image
The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the… — Mary Balogh 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
If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
We are people who lived in absence of freedom. We know how precious it is. I want to give all these people… — Kang Chol-hwan Copy Share Image
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth. — William Styron Copy Share Image
How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the absence of specific solutions or evidence that we have people in Washington, D.C., who can make a significant difference... people… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I had taken time off from 'F.I.R.' for three months. But its makers didn't like my absence. — Kiku Sharda Copy Share Image
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become… — Elisabeth Murdoch Copy Share Image
And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
