Absence Quotes · Page 76

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

— James Fox

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such…

— Bruce Sterling

The color white is the absence of memory.

— Stephen King

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

— Anonymous

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

— Brandon Sanderson

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

— Jay Samit

The total absence of desire brings happiness. It also brings freedom and liberation, because whenever something is lacking there are both limits…

— Rajneesh

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

— Anthony Trollope

No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.

— Serge Gainsbourg

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.

— Vincent Bugliosi

Given the ... multidisciplinary philosophy, I was surprised by the absence of alternative pain approaches - the whole spectrum of cranial-sacral massage,…

— Marni Jackson

COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging…

— John C. Maxwell

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

— Dennis Covington

This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable…

— Ferdinand Foch

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation…

— Dale Spender

I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

— Samuel Johnson

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

— Eric Hoffer