Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit. — Tony Blair
Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal… — Dennis Kucinich
With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over… — Michael C. Burgess
Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after… — Teresa de la Parra
We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we… — Adam Gopnik
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more… — Mark Twain
This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving… — Jim Harrison
Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons… — James Henley Thornwell
The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a serious… — Henry A. Kissinger
People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity… — Nelson Mandela
For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day after day… — Pope Paul VI
Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous… — Herbert Spencer
No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series… — William Buckland
. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them. — Donald M. MacKinnon
To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to… — Thomas Merton
When a person disappears, everything becomes impregnated with that person's presence. Every single object as well as every space becomes a reminder of absence, as… — Doris Salcedo
We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our… — Larry Wall
Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls… — Philip Gourevitch
Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God. — Tullian Tchividjian
Hell is the absence of the people you long for. — Emily St. John Mandel
He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in… — John Banville
Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual, within the family… — Mata Amritanandamayi
A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life. — Timothy Keller
Animals are not just other species. They are other nations. And we murder them at our peril. The peace map is drawn on a menu.… — Philip Wollen

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