Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear. — M. Scott Peck
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. — Elizabeth Ashley
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. — William Shakespeare
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is… — Mark Twain
Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the… — Harold S. Kushner
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. — Alexander Herzen
Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life… — Norman Cousins
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that… — Charles Horton Cooley
People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You… — Henry A. Kissinger
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace. — Anna Howard Shaw
The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art. — Henry Moore
Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision… — Thomas Sowell
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound… — Robert Breault
What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has… — Rollo May
Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender. — Ramana Maharshi
The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it… — Frank Chodorov
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an… — Dennis Kucinich
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. — Samuel Johnson
We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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