Absence Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

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.