Absence Quotes

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.

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.