absence Quotes

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.

We should hold day with the Antipodes,<br />If you would walk in absence of the sun.

Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.

However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.

In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.

Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.

She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.

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 do with our life.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.\' (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

Love is as simple as the absence of self- given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.