Absence Quotes

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

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

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

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

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

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

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

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

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

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

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

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Absence - that common cure of love.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.