Absence Quotes

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

I dote on his very absence.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

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

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.

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

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.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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.

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

For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.

In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.