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Absence Quotes by Paulo Coelho
- She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering,…
- And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.
- Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
- It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.
- In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge.…
- solitude is not absence of love, but its complement
- Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to…
More Absence Quotes
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
- I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my… — Brendan Behan
- Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Ambrose Bierce
- Life has become the ideology of its own absence. — Theodor Adorno
- The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Elizabeth Bowen
- Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. — David Bowie
- Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from… — Bill Bryson
- There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. — Samuel Butler