Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom. — Chogyam Trungpa
The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it. — Peter Drucker
I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself… — Aneurin Bevan
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics. — Nick Rahall
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors. — Arthur W. Pink
All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant battle to drive… — Irwin Schiff
Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of… — Hermann von Helmholtz
Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you… — Stefanie Schneider
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not, — Janet Yellen
If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its… — Esther Hicks
We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral… — Susan Jacoby
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic… — David Brainerd
Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into… — Joycelyn Elders
Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people is… — Joycelyn Elders
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of… — Havelock Ellis
We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen… — Terence McKenna
Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear. — Mark Messier
I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is… — Ntozake Shange
Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss… — Yusef Komunyakaa
If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life. — Sun Ra
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, — Jonathan Ive
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning. — Sheila Jeffreys
Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence.… — Stuart Dybek
We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke… — Ivan Chtcheglov
Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid — Robert Liparulo

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