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Absence Quotes by Ayn Rand
- A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease,…
- He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but…
- He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to…
- Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows…
More Absence Quotes
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
- I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my… — Brendan Behan
- Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Ambrose Bierce
- Life has become the ideology of its own absence. — Theodor Adorno
- The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Elizabeth Bowen
- Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. — David Bowie
- Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from… — Bill Bryson
- There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. — Samuel Butler