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title: "Best Absence Sayings"
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> [“The absence of you ruined my life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-maizel/the-absence-of-you-ruined-my-life/)

[Rebecca Maizel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-maizel/)

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> [Is not absence death to those who love?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/is-not-absence-death-to-those-who-love/)

[Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/)

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> [Absent in body, but present in spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-the-apostle/absent-in-body-but-present-in-spirit/)

[Paul the Apostle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-the-apostle/)

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> [Simplicity is not the absence of clutter,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-ive/simplicity-is-not-the-absence-of-clutter/)

[Jonathan Ive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-ive/)

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> [Darkness is only light's absence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-clements/darkness-is-only-light-s-absence/)

[Andrew Clements](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-clements/)

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> [Love has no value in the absence of truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/love-has-no-value-in-the-absence-of-truth/)

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

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> [How do u say Goodbye?? :(](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nushra/how-do-u-say-goodbye/)

[Nushra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nushra/)

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> [Your absence is the presence of godliness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/your-absence-is-the-presence-of-godliness/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [And I dont even like you, but the pain of life without you is biting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shalini/and-i-dont-even-like-you-but-the-pain-of-life-without-you-is-biting/)

[Shalini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shalini/)

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> [Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nassim-nicholas-taleb/doctors-most-commonly-get-mixed-up-between-absence-of-evidence-and/)

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nassim-nicholas-taleb/)

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> [Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kamal-haasan/politics-is-too-big-a-game-to-feel-the-absence-of-a-kamal-haasan/)

[Kamal Haasan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kamal-haasan/)

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> [Absence from the person you love is only healthy in theory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-evans/absence-from-the-person-you-love-is-only-healthy-in-theory/)

[Greg Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-evans/)

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> [How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugenie-de-guerin/how-long-time-is-when-one-is-sad-is-it-three-years-or-three-days/)

[Eugenie de Guerin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugenie-de-guerin/)

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> [The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/the-absence-of-temptation-is-the-absence-of-virtue/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

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> [Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-joseph-proudhon/anarchy-the-absence-of-a-master-of-a-sovereign/)

[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-joseph-proudhon/)

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> [“His absence was a presence. Who knew an empty space could take up so much room.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacqueline-simon-gunn/his-absence-was-a-presence-who-knew-an-empty-space-could-take-up-so/)

[Jacqueline Simon Gunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacqueline-simon-gunn/)

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> [Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-grizzuti-harrison/persecution-always-acts-as-a-jell-for-members-of-cults-it-proves-to/)

[Barbara Grizzuti Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-grizzuti-harrison/)

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> [If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-scott-peck/if-you-wish-to-discern-either-the-presence-or-absence-of-integrity/)

[M. Scott Peck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-scott-peck/)

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> [Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-yellen/will-capitalist-economies-operate-at-full-employment-in-the-absence/)

[Janet Yellen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-yellen/)

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> [There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-pinter/there-is-a-movement-to-get-an-international-criminal-court-in-the/)

[Harold Pinter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-pinter/)

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> [In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/in-france-a-woman-may-forget-that-she-is-neither-young-nor-handsome/)

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

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> [Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-chinmoy/inner-silence-is-not-just-the-absence-of-thoughts-no-silence-is-the/)

[Sri Chinmoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-chinmoy/)

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> [I had taken time off from 'F.I.R.' for three months. But its makers didn't like my absence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiku-sharda/i-had-taken-time-off-from-f-i-r-for-three-months-but-its-makers-didn/)

[Kiku Sharda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiku-sharda/)

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> [Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle everything I do is stitched with its color.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/your-absence-has-gone-through-me-like-thread-through-a-needle/)

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

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> [ Perhaps the greatest lesson \[Huxley\] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-desmond/perhaps-the-greatest-lesson-huxley-learned-from-reading-carlyle-was/)

[Adrian Desmond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-desmond/)

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> [The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/the-absence-of-the-heavy-boot-of-europe-has-preserved-to-these-people/)

[John Millington Synge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-millington-synge/)

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> [Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is action in spite of fear. Courageous people never really overcome their fears. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-myers/courage-is-not-the-absence-of-fear-courage-is-action-in-spite-of-fear/)

[Jeff Myers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-myers/)

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> [Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/ye-flowers-that-drop-forsaken-by-the-spring-ye-birds-that-left-by/)

[Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/)

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> [“If you can open your mouth to say; I love you! To someone without taking such person(s) as your priority, even with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bassey-johnson/if-you-can-open-your-mouth-to-say-i-love-you-to-someone-without/)

[Michael bassey johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bassey-johnson/)

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> [I was my own Peeping Tom. Because of the absence of people I could do anything, and if it wasn't good I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucas-samaras/i-was-my-own-peeping-tom-because-of-the-absence-of-people-i-could-do/)

[Lucas Samaras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucas-samaras/)

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> [During Grover Cleveland's second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dallek/during-grover-cleveland-s-second-term-in-the-1890s-the-white-house/)

[Robert Dallek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dallek/)

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> [The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-spirit-of-god-like-the-sun-always-gives-all-its-light-at-once-the/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/there-in-the-center-of-that-silence-was-not-eternity-but-the-death-of/)

[Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/)

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> [Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-nunns/writing-a-book-about-jeremy-corbyn-set-out-with-two-objectives-the/)

[Alex Nunns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-nunns/)

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> [I think that most of us are aware that as writers we are seeking absences, we're seeking silences, we're seeking spaces that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/junot-diaz/i-think-that-most-of-us-are-aware-that-as-writers-we-are-seeking/)

[Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/junot-diaz/)

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> [I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khaled-hosseini/i-returned-to-kabul-after-a-27-year-absence-i-came-away-with-some/)

[Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khaled-hosseini/)

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> [The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-pavlina/the-exact-process-you-use-to-build-courage-isn-t-important-what-s/)

[Steve Pavlina](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-pavlina/)

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> [Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-ponsonby-1st-baron-ponsonby-of-shulbrede/resolutions-expressing-parliamentary-approval-of-every-treaty-before/)

[Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-ponsonby-1st-baron-ponsonby-of-shulbrede/)

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> [Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/indians-have-no-monopoly-on-environmentalism-that-s-one-of-the-great/)

[Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/)

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> [As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-a-falk/as-matters-now-stand-the-veto-seems-inappropriate-given-the-absence/)

[Richard A. Falk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-a-falk/)

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