Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries. — Jalal Talabani
For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome… — Walter Lippmann
Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder. — Judith Viorst
For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in… — Judith Viorst
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other… — Mark Twain
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. — Allan Bloom
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless. — Plutarch
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has… — Clifton Fadiman
What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and… — Philibert Joseph Roux
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be. — John Donne
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not… — Unknown Author
The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues. — Antonio Machado
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner… — Andre Breton
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn… — Irving Babbitt
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what… — Barbara Ehrenreich
What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows,… — Leopold Sedar Senghor
In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce… — Russell Pearce
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain… — George Saunders
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes… — Jonathan Lethem
Love is as simple as the absence of self- given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is… — Criss Jami
Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we… — Maximus the Confessor
In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception… — Stephen LaBerge
Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe that human beings… — John Ralston Saul
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. — Propertius
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the… — Gerhard Richter

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