Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . . — Audre Lorde
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can… — Alexander Sutherland Neill
Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow. — Ray Charles
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also… — Bayard Rustin
In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled… — George Grosz
It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want… — William Booth
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.… — Jacques Attali
To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral… — Pope Benedict XVI
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal.… — Joko Beck
I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence… — Brooke Burns
Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying… — Bootsy Collins
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. — Tucker Carlson
In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems. — Lindsay Davenport
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem very… — John Kenneth Galbraith
It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being.… — Mildred Blaxter
But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive… — Rene Dubos
We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't… — Rafik Hariri
During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A.… — Ken Jennings
Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace. — Ann Brashares
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is… — Henry Adams
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man. — Gilles Deleuze
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe. — Petrarch
However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then,… — Rachel Hartman

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