Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults. — John F. Kennedy
Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives — Margaret Beckett
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What… — Edith Wharton
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is… — Simone Weil
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning. — Sanford Meisner
Peace must be more than the absence of war. — Helmut Kohl
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but… — B.F. Skinner
Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments,… — Jerzy Grotowski
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who… — Thucydides
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? — Arthur Miller
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of… — William Gilmore Simms
If there is an â€˜overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when compared with some… — Elena Kagan
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is… — John Paul Stevens
Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final… — Ernest Holmes
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate… — Philip Larkin
I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence… — Samuel Rutherford
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than… — Emile M. Cioran
And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it… — Milorad PaviÄ‡
The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind. — Aung San Suu Kyi
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to… — Antonin Artaud

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