Absence Quotes · Page 26

How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered

— Kristin Cashore

Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

— Horace Walpole

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

— Paulo Coelho

“Hell [...] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.”

— Glen Duncan

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

— Ronnie Montrose

“When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If someone doesn't appreciate your presence make them appreciate your absence.

— Anonymous

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

— Thomas Moore

Sometimes, taking a break and going somewhere else and, almost, for both parties, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

— Edge

Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of…

— John Hagelin

Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.

— Rajneesh

The truth is there's so many great TV shows out there now that none of us take absence of awards personally. The…

— Gale Anne Hurd

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now…

— Salman Rushdie

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that…

— Clifton Fadiman

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

— Freya Stark

Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in…

— Sri Aurobindo

I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a…

— Abigail McCarthy

If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that…

— Wayne Dyer

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence…

— Blaise Pascal

Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the…

— Anonymous

Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick.…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can,…

— David Foster Wallace

Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as…

— Mildred Blaxter

From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of…

— Barack Obama

My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've…

— Arianna Huffington

Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our…

— Sarah Dessen

We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war…

— Stefan Molyneux

“It is a solemn duty to change lives positively.It is a noble honor to inspire and be there for others.It is an…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to…

— Alan Greenspan

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

— Anonymous

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

— Neal A. Maxwell

True love is like a ghost which everyone talks about and few have seen.

— Nwokolo Michael

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Absence, hear thou my protestation Against that strength, Distance and length.”

— John Hoskins

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

— Will Self