Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it… — Rebecca Solnit
In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth. — Reggie Watts
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient… — Jacques Ellul
The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is… — Edward Anthony Spitzka
'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot. — Unknown Author
Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of… — Tony Robbins
"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master. — Anthony de Mello
The total absence of desire brings happiness. It also brings freedom and liberation, because whenever something is lacking there are both limits and dependency. Only… — Rajneesh
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. — Milton Friedman
Your absence weighs more than someone else’s presence — Jeffrey McDaniel
Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps' — Steven Furtick
In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could… — Amy Waldman
Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore — Bob Goff
By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the… — Justus von Liebig
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence… — Unknown Author
Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as it sees in… — Daniel Odier
Separation is the absence of Love, and Love is the absence of separation. — Ramesh S Balsekar
We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations,… — John Donne
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected. — Oliver Goldsmith
Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. — John Donne
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. — Hannah More
Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Is not absence death to those who love? — Alexander Pope
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith. — Pope John Paul II

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