Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives… — Dorothy Thompson
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. — Mark Twain
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. — Orson Welles
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. — Alfred North Whitehead
The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world. — Paul Wolfowitz
There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more. — Sean Young
I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human… — Muhammad Yunus
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. — Muhammad Yunus
I began to measure things in absence instead of presence. — Marya Hornbacher
Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it. — Dan Millman
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen. — John Irving
World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. — Dalai Lama
Love is the absence of judgment. — Dalai Lama
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice. — Michael Crichton
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a… — Anais Nin
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. — Michel Houellebecq
I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is… — Tom Waits
Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence. — Ashleigh Brilliant
you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in… — Joyce Carol Oates
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. — W S Merwin
It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. — John Steinbeck
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right… — Fulton J. Sheen
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched… — Graham Greene

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