Absence Quotes · Page 40

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

— Joseph Addison

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

— Plutarch

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest…

— Alexander Sutherland Neill

When you part from your friend, you grieve not. For that which you love most in himmay be clearer in his absence

— Anonymous

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

— Steve Coogan

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

— Plutarch

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

— PZ Myers

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and…

— Charles Baudelaire

I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and…

— Van Day Truex

People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity,…

— Nelson Mandela

It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly…

— Jean Klein

The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers…

— Ludwig von Mises

The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in…

— Geza Vermes

The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the…

— Anonymous

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long…

— Ovid

Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of…

— Gautama Buddha

How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the…

— Stephen King

I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I've found that photographs from different genres can be extraordinarily generous with each other. I started out photographing myself in a landscape,…

— Torbjørn Rødland

Many Christians are either woefully deficient in their knowledge of Scripture or noticeably devoid of any experience of God's power. The Lord…

— Sam Storms

We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality.…

— B. R. Ambedkar

If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend…

— Erich Fromm

We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a…

— Bryan Stevenson

Get well soonest the love of my life. I love it when you are well and up on your feet. For sure…

— Arcine Arciniegas

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

— Graydon Carter

Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.

— Hans Koning

When I missed you, I missed 'your absence'.But when you missed me, 'you missed my Presence'...

— Santanu Mishra

True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

— Helen Rowland

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

— Betty Friedan

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

— Gayle Forman

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and…

— Emma Watson

Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.

— Napoleon Hill

Life is too ironic. It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, & absence to value presence.

— Anonymous

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

— Freya Stark

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

— Edsger Dijkstra

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must…

— Antonin Artaud

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

— John Robert Seeley

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

— David Bowie