A collection of 1,826 inspiring quotes about absence from various authors and sources.
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Is not absence death to those who love?
Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.
Presence is more than just being there. If your absence doesn't make any difference, your presence won't either.
Quality is presence of value and not absence of mistake.
Courage is not the absence of fear.Courage is the precence of fear with the capacity to manage and overcome it.
One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It raises scruples when we don't keep the routine. (2) It raises presumption when we do. Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith.
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
Absence, that common cure of love.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!
I dote on his very absence.
Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.