Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle everything I do is stitched with its color. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had taken time off from 'F.I.R.' for three months. But its makers didn't like my absence. — Kiku Sharda Copy Share Image
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing?… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Your wife knew when she married you that you were also married to the sky, as men were married to the sea… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again.… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I deleted your number. Although I know the tired digits by heart, scout's honor, pinky promise. I am trying to talk myself… — Shalini Copy Share Image
Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all… — Thomas Hartwell Horne Copy Share Image
I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities.… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye… — Joe Bolton Copy Share Image
When I was younger, loneliness was really scary - it felt like an absence - and now I feel human beings are… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
Learn how to give your absence to those who don't appreciate your presence, in the end you will make them realize how… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires. — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct. — Hermann Adler Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would… — John Green Copy Share Image
If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence. — Bob Kane Copy Share Image
Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a… — Karl Radek Copy Share Image
