absence Quotes

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist .

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

The absence of war is not peace.

Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.

The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in earlier biblical times, was the recording of history as we understand it a strong point among the Jews.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

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 fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my BA from NYU in Art History. I initially gravitated towards singing. Acting sort of sprang out of that as a means to participate in musicals.

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Love is the absence of judgment.

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.

Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a ciga

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.