absence Quotes

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

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 filled, so we dream forever of those who are no longer here. Our minds make them live again.

I'm not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order Ђ'in short, of government.

It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no music, there's no dah-dah-daaahhs. There's no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on.

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

We always knew it was going to be tough with the schedule we had at the start and with the absence of players.

When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.