If someone doesn't appreciate your presence make them appreciate your absence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things. — David Shields Copy Share Image
“I suppose that the greatest blindness is to assume the absence of blindness.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You and I are the sum of a void left by the absence of someone we love.” — Jennifer Rush Copy Share Image
“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Did you really think I wouldn't recognize my college futon, with its trademark absence of sex stains? — LIZ Copy Share Image
Absence doesn't always make the heart grow fonder...sometimes it just makes it easier to say goodbye. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Those members of the executive council who voted against my candidacy in the absence of a cogent reason they could publicly present… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
“I've amazed myself with how well I've learned to live around her absence. This void is my constant companion, no matter what… — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
What is quite worrisome is the absence of analysis and reflection. Take the word "terrorism." It has become synonymous now with anti-Americanism,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't see how being a faster runner, or a better mathematician makes you 'deserve' access to a better life, or more… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
“You can decorate absence however you want- but your still gonna feel what’s missing.” — Siobhan Vivian Copy Share Image
“Absence, hear thou my protestation Against that strength, Distance and length.” — John Hoskins Copy Share Image
Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is. — Will Self Copy Share Image
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
