Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life… — Norman Cousins
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that… — Charles Horton Cooley
People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You… — Henry A. Kissinger
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace. — Anna Howard Shaw
The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art. — Henry Moore
Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision… — Thomas Sowell
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound… — Robert Breault
What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has… — Rollo May
Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender. — Ramana Maharshi
The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it… — Frank Chodorov
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an… — Dennis Kucinich
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. — Samuel Johnson
We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates… — Stephen Jay Gould
Devotion differs. Devotion exists for the total existence, without the counterpart, mm? There is nothing against devotion. There is hate against love; there is nothing… — Rajneesh
In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it. — Erwin Rommel
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. — Henry A. Kissinger
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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