Absence Quotes
1418 quotes by 1019 authors
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those…
— Mary Astell
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
— Saint Augustine
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
— Brendan Behan
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
— Theodor Adorno
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
— David Bowie
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma.…
— Bill Bryson
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
— Samuel Butler
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I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his…
— A. S. Byatt
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Absence - that common cure of love.
— Lord Byron
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
— Willa Cather
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Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
— Leonard Cohen
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Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.
— Robert Buettner
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