“... wondering how it was that one person's absence could rob the day so wholly of its shape and meaning.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“He hands the page to his wife and looks across the room to Colleen's picture, listening to her absence, breathing deeply the… — Steven Herrick Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Absence might make the heart grow fonder,' 'I don't think that's possible ... You have no idea how much I love you.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Your absence doesn't mean that you are not with me. You're in my heart, my thoughts and front of my eyes everywhere… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective… — John Howard Copy Share Image
We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Unfailing friends are essential, when ‘presence’ and ‘absence’ are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear,… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence.… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I want to play roles where my absence should be felt. It may not necessarily be a lead role, but my character… — Hiten Tejwani Copy Share Image
Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real. — Josephine Lawrence Copy Share Image
Avoiding someone has two reasons: you either hate that person or you're in love with that person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
“You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me is your absence, Alaric” — Alyssa Day Copy Share Image
Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence. — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
