Absence Quotes · Page 4

Absence makes the Heart grows fonder

— Richie

Conspicuous by his absence.

— Tacitus

“Worry is absence of faith.”

— Paul Palnik

The absent feel and fear every ill.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Courage is not the absence of fear

— Richard Stengel

“No whereto in the absence of space.”

— Toba Beta

The absence of disease is not health.

— Shawn Achor

The absence of war is not peace.

— Harry S. Truman

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Abstinence makes the arm grow stronger.

— Anonymous

“the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence’.”

— Gordon Corera

“The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.”

— Charlotte Brontë

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

— Helen Keller

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A positive mindset alone in the absence of hard work will get you nowhere.”

— Ken Poirot

“I will always be conscious of your absence.”

— Sylvain Reynard

Hell is the absence of the people you long for.

— Emily St. John Mandel

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard…

— Sheryl Sandberg

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…

— Charles Horton Cooley

The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.

— Ravi Zacharias

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom…

— Ludwig von Mises

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex…

— Julius Lester

People can laugh at me , hurt me , lie on me , diss me. But all that they've done won't effect…

— Anonymous

Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope…

— Stuart Scott

The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges…

— Francine Noel

I don't necessarily think there's a difference in terms of how the film industry and the ad industry view visual effects. If…

— Joshua Rogers

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's…

— Adam Gopnik

You try to be faithful And sometimes you're cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can't cope. And when…

— Anonymous

Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence…

— Anonymous

'I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in,…

— Bill Cosby

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . .…

— Bertrand Russell

The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger…

— Izzeldin Abuelaish

The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of…

— Carl Sagan

Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [...] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him…

— Anonymous

The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come…

— Milan Kundera

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.…

— Tahereh Mafi

I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made…

— Li-Young Lee

Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health…

— William Osler

Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously…

— Andrew Solomon

Man's history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting,…

— Sigurd F. Olson