A collection of 1,826 inspiring quotes about absence from various authors and sources.
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.