you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind. — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy. — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Keto is the only diet that heals you internally because absence of carbs means no sugar in your body, as carb transforms… — Zareen Khan Copy Share Image
Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God. — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
“Smartass Disciple: Master, where is exactly the edge of this universe ? Master of Stupidity: Edge is wherever the absence of universal gravity.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so… — Barbara Tuchman 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
One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is… — Kenneth W. Ford Copy Share Image
He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence. — Shelagh Delaney Copy Share Image
Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is an absence of democratic accountability and control in every sphere of government and the state. To address this debilitating legacy… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally,… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
“It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this… — Seneca Copy Share Image
