Absence Quotes

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back.

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

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

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

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

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

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

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.

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

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.