In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I suppose that the greatest blindness is to assume the absence of blindness.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things. — David Shields Copy Share Image
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
The total absence of desire brings happiness. It also brings freedom and liberation, because whenever something is lacking there are both limits… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think the media in general hasn't been very kind to fat women or fat people. We see so many insensitive portrayals… — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private… — Jerzy Grotowski Copy Share Image
Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
“You and I are the sum of a void left by the absence of someone we love.” — Jennifer Rush Copy Share Image
“You can decorate absence however you want- but your still gonna feel what’s missing.” — Siobhan Vivian Copy Share Image
The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
