Total Absence Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

• I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his… — A. S. Byatt
• What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden… — Blaise Pascal
• The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as… — Federico Garcia Lorca
• Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. — Gerald Jampolsky
• 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,… — Paulo Coelho
• Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient… — Jacques Ellul
• "What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master. — Anthony de Mello
• The total absence of desire brings happiness. It also brings freedom and liberation, because whenever something is lacking there are both limits and dependency. Only… — Rajneesh
• The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics,… — Nancy Travis
• A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity. — Sandy Woodward
• From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
• Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse — William James
• No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series… — William Buckland
• Total absence of humor renders life impossible. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
• The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. — Alfred North Whitehead
• We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone leaves must be… — Anna Funder
• 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.… — Paulo Coelho
• We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was… — Trina Paulus
• The system adopted in the Latin American instrument proves that, although no state can obligate another to join such a zone, neither can one prevent… — Alfonso G Robles

Who Wrote These Total Absence Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 Total Absence Quotes as follows:

• 2 Total Absence Quotes by Paulo Coelho
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Anna Funder
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Trina Paulus
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Alfonso G Robles
• 1 Total Absence Quote by A. S. Byatt
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Blaise Pascal
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Federico Garcia Lorca
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Gerald Jampolsky
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Jacques Ellul
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Anthony de Mello
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Rajneesh
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Nancy Travis
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Sandy Woodward
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Pierre-Paul Grasse
• 1 Total Absence Quote by William James
• 1 Total Absence Quote by William Buckland
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
• 1 Total Absence Quote by Alfred North Whitehead