Absence Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Absence - that common cure of love.

I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.

With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

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

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

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

We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.