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title: "Famous Absence Sayings"
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> [Absence makes your heart grow fonder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zayn-malik/absence-makes-your-heart-grow-fonder/)

[Zayn Malik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zayn-malik/)

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> [For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cameron-dokey/for-in-hope-s-absence-a-miracle-arrived/)

[Cameron Dokey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cameron-dokey/)

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> [Relaxation is the absence of worry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-brooks/relaxation-is-the-absence-of-worry/)

[Albert Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-brooks/)

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> [If someone doesn't appreciate your presence make them appreciate your absence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/if-someone-doesn-t-appreciate-your-presence-make-them-appreciate-your/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-shields/the-absence-of-plot-leaves-the-reader-room-to-think-about-other-things/)

[David Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-shields/)

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> [absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/audrey-niffenegger/absence-can-be-present-like-a-damaged-nerve-like-a-dark-bird/)

[Audrey Niffenegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/audrey-niffenegger/)

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> [“I suppose that the greatest blindness is to assume the absence of blindness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-d-lounsbrough/i-suppose-that-the-greatest-blindness-is-to-assume-the-absence-of/)

[Craig D. Lounsbrough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-d-lounsbrough/)

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> [The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/the-absence-of-flaw-in-beauty-is-itself-a-flaw/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

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> [Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howell/distance-sometimes-endears-friendship-and-absence-sweeteneth-it/)

[James Howell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howell/)

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> [All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/all-violence-all-that-is-dreary-and-repels-is-not-power-but-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [“You and I are the sum of a void left by the absence of someone we love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-rush/you-and-i-are-the-sum-of-a-void-left-by-the-absence-of-someone-we-love/)

[Jennifer Rush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-rush/)

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> [“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-barthes/absence-is-the-figure-of-privation-simultaneously-i-desire-and-i-need/)

[Roland Barthes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-barthes/)

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> [The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-beck/the-difference-between-success-and-failure-isn-t-the-absence-of-fear/)

[Martha Beck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-beck/)

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> [What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/what-any-true-painting-touches-is-an-absence-an-absence-of-which/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

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> [Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meg-cabot/courage-is-not-the-absence-of-fear-but-rather-the-judgement-that/)

[Meg Cabot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meg-cabot/)

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> [Did you really think I wouldn't recognize my college futon, with its trademark absence of sex stains?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liz/did-you-really-think-i-wouldn-t-recognize-my-college-futon-with-its/)

[LIZ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liz/)

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> [Absence doesn't always make the heart grow fonder...sometimes it just makes it easier to say goodbye.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/absence-doesn-t-always-make-the-heart-grow-fonder-sometimes-it-just/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/a-sense-of-jesus-absence-might-be-a-sign-of-his-presence-a-sign-that/)

[Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/)

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> [Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-hannity/here-you-are-you-re-a-liberal-probably-define-peace-as-the-absence-of/)

[Sean Hannity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-hannity/)

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> [For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-viorst/for-many-men-the-denial-of-dependency-on-their-mother-is-repeated-in/)

[Judith Viorst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-viorst/)

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> [Those members of the executive council who voted against my candidacy in the absence of a cogent reason they could publicly present…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/crispin-blunt/those-members-of-the-executive-council-who-voted-against-my-candidacy/)

[Crispin Blunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/crispin-blunt/)

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> [“I've amazed myself with how well I've learned to live around her absence. This void is my constant companion, no matter what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/i-ve-amazed-myself-with-how-well-i-ve-learned-to-live-around-her/)

[Zinzi Clemmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zinzi-clemmons/)

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> [What is quite worrisome is the absence of analysis and reflection. Take the word "terrorism." It has become synonymous now with anti-Americanism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/what-is-quite-worrisome-is-the-absence-of-analysis-and-reflection/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

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> [Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/depression-is-the-most-unpleasant-thing-i-have-ever-experienced-it-is/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I don't see how being a faster runner, or a better mathematician makes you 'deserve' access to a better life, or more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-wilson/i-don-t-see-how-being-a-faster-runner-or-a-better-mathematician-makes/)

[Catherine Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-wilson/)

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> [There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/there-is-hardly-any-contact-more-depressing-to-a-young-ardent/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/our-souls-are-not-hungry-for-fame-comfort-wealth-or-power-those/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/a-thousand-for-his-love-expired-each-day-and-those-who-saw-his-face/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-harrison/this-infantile-sense-of-order-tended-to-infect-my-life-at-large-up-at/)

[Jim Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-harrison/)

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> [But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/but-what-after-all-is-faith-it-is-a-state-of-mind-that-leads-people/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/once-again-you-are-wrong-sir-darkness-does-not-exist-either-darkness/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/if-one-starts-with-the-assumption-that-in-the-absence-of-specific/)

[Felix Frankfurter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-frankfurter/)

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> [Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-balogh/black-is-the-absence-of-all-color-white-is-the-presence-of-all-colors/)

[Mary Balogh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-balogh/)

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> [Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/annihilation-has-no-terrors-for-me-because-i-have-already-tried-it-2/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-wroe/ingratitude-is-the-frost-that-nips-the-flower-even-as-it-opens-that/)

[Ann Wroe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-wroe/)

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> [“You can decorate absence however you want- but your still gonna feel what’s missing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siobhan-vivian/you-can-decorate-absence-however-you-want-but-your-still-gonna-feel/)

[Siobhan Vivian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siobhan-vivian/)

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> [“Absence, hear thou my protestation Against that strength, Distance and length.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-hoskins/absence-hear-thou-my-protestation-against-that-strength-distance-and/)

John Hoskins

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> [Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose-bierce/absence-blots-people-out-we-really-have-no-absent-friends/)

[Ambrose Bierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose-bierce/)

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> [Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/sometimes-the-crowd-is-the-madness-at-others-it-s-the-absence-of-the/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

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> [In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-cohen/in-dreams-the-truth-is-learned-that-all-good-works-are-done-in-the/)

[Leonard Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-cohen/)

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                        "text": "This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving one of the yolks to Lola. Listening to NPR and grieving more recently over the absence of Bob Edwards who was the sound of morning as surely as birds. Reading a paragraph or two of Emerson or Loren Eiseley to raise the level of my thinking. Going out to feed the cattle if it was during our six months of bad weather.",
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                        "text": "But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter what - in the total absence of supporting evidence. If there were good supporting evidence then faith would be superfluous, for the evidence would compel us to believe it anyway. It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that 'evolution itself is a matter of faith' so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence.",
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                        "text": "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.",
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                        "text": "If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.",
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                        "text": "Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?",
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                        "text": "Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.",
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