Absence Quotes

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

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.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.

The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

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.

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.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

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.

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.