A collection of 1,826 inspiring quotes about absence from various authors and sources.
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .
We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.
Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.
Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.
With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen - then you become a mirror. With the ego you will always interpret, you cannot know the truth. With the ego you will always be there interpreting in subtle ways, and your interpretation is not the truth. You are the medium of all falsification. Through you everything becomes false. When you are not there, the true reflects.
Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people is critically dependent upon the health system that serves them. It must provide the best possible health with the least disparities and respond equally well to everyone.
Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.
This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings ( Г©pures ), plans ( schГ©mas ), etc. One only right solution imposes itself:;: namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles.
The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not,
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.
But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.
Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.
It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.
Your absence has gone through me
In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall
Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.