Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. — Neal A. Maxwell
When I ask Plutarch about his absence, he just shakes his head and says, "He couldnt face it." "Haymitch? Not able to face something? Wanted… — Suzanne Collins
Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss. — David Levithan
Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties… — Ernst Junger
The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter. — Paul Monette
But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This… — Lawrence Hill
For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived — Cameron Dokey
i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to… — Ayn Rand
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart,… — Michael Ondaatje
The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing. — Joyce Meyer
It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that. — David Levithan
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego. — Terence McKenna
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our… — Terence McKenna
Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted… — Pablo Neruda
Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from… — Frederick Buechner
Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally; they urge him… — John Eldredge
The absence of him is everywhere I look. — Stephenie Meyer
you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry — Taylor Swift
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the… — Khalil Gibran
Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the… — Mary Balogh
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. — Carl Sagan
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story… — Hermann Hesse
Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these… — Orson Scott Card
Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [...] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him on the job.… — Tina St. John

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