Absence Quotes · Page 20

Nothing good or great can be done in the absence of enthusiasm.

— Tom Peters

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

— Margaret Atwood

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

— Ray Charles

Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate

— Edmund Spenser

Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.

— George Washington

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

— William Cowper

“Faith is your guide in the absence of knowledge.”

— Toba Beta

“Let him miss you. He should love to love your absence as well.”

— Saleem Sharma

Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact…

— Martin Lindstrom

Missing you is flashes of our past and fantasies of our future with the hard irony of the absence of our present…

— Shalini

Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.

— Earl A Grollman

Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the absence of conditions that give rise to war.

— Ron Dellums

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

— William Hazlitt

“they come different and the same with each it is different and the same with each the absence of love is different…

— Samuel Beckett

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”

— Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet…

— Anonymous

The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

“I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent…

— Jane Lotter

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“The hatred the 'Christian' right wing harbors for the SA Constitution is not htere because of an absence of 'God' in state…

— Christina Engela

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence,…

— Dan Simmons

Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but…

— Philip Gourevitch

Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking…

— Rajneesh

Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It…

— Albert Einstein

Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace…

— Anodea Judith

“If this turns to friendship, it only means That one of us will suffer. That when we meet after the worst of…

— Cyril Wong

The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of…

— John Tyler

Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will…

— Jeff Schweitzer

Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of…

— Josef Pieper

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and…

— Tony Abbott

If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is…

— Alain de Botton

Who doesn't appreciate your existence..don't care for his absence..

— Ahmadalhashmee

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

— Nick Bantock

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

— Bliss Carman

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

— Shelagh Delaney

Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

— Frederic Bastiat

Guess who was there for you? Me. Guess whose not there for me? You.

— Karina Barton

Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes

— Hannah Moore

Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.

— Amy Dickinson