Absence Quotes · Page 63

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

— Plutarch

Most voices die unheard, Only luckier ones get the right set of ears.

— Shalini

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest…

— Alexander Sutherland Neill

It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to…

— Charles Evans Hughes

Boredom is simply the absence of an interesting perspective.

— Brandon A Trean

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners,…

— Edith Wharton

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

— Robert Fripp

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

— Robert M. Pirsig

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

— Antonio Machado

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

— Laini Taylor

The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.

— Bernice King

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

— Plutarch

Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of…

— Gautama Buddha

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

— Ramana Maharshi

What starting your company means: you will lose your stable income, your right to apply for a leave of absence, and your…

— Jack Ma

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love and appreciation are identical vibrations. Appreciation is the vibration of alignment with who-you-are. Appreciation is the absence of everything that feels…

— Esther Hicks

Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time,…

— Plato

He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence…

— Michael Chabon

To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst…

— Don Meyer

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

— Moliere