Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can… — Unknown Author
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades
Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness. — Zhuangzi
Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can… — Petra Kelly
I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their… — James Martineau
Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more… — Marcel Proust
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands… — Mary McCarthy
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a… — Anna Brownell Jameson
The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear. — M. Scott Peck
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. — Elizabeth Ashley
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. — William Shakespeare
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is… — Mark Twain
Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the… — Harold S. Kushner
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. — Alexander Herzen

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