Top 100 Absence Is Quotes
#1. Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
Freya Stark
#2. The rest of the short walk was silent. It was that loud sort
of silence where the absence is painful, when there's so much to
say, but nothing is said.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#3. His absence is so big it's like he's there.
Patrick Ness
#4. Absence is a curious thing. When friends are absent they seem to loom ever larger, till the lack of them is all one can feel.
Libba Bray
#5. Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.
Rudolf Steiner
#7. Two days ago I didn't even know this man. Now his absence is an earthquake.
Beth Teliho
#8. If your absence is ever felt, then you will be either missed or cursed.
Shreya Gupta
#10. Your absence is the presence of godliness.
Rajneesh
#11. Five years have come, and five years have gone, and still we stand together as one. We come back to this place to remember the heartbreaking anniversary - and each person who died here - those known and unknown to us, whose absence is always with us.
Michael Bloomberg
#12. Absence is more,
thorny on the soul,
than however dulcet,
presence can be.
Apparently,
I have missed you,
more than,
I have ever loved you.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#13. Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
Jodi Picoult
#14. Her absence is a presence, ghostly and haunting, touching all who knew her. It is impossible that she disappeared, inconceivable that she will never return. She is at once nowhere and everywhere, a constant shadow, elusory and insubstantial, her life an unkept promise, a half-remembered dream.
Christina Baker Kline
#16. This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
Roland Barthes
#17. Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.
H.L. Mencken
#18. Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
C.S. Lewis
#19. A short absence is the safest.
Ovid
#21. The remedy for an absence is a presence. Evil is an absence and, therefore, it cannot be healed with an absence. By hating evil, or one who is engaged in evil, you contribute to the absence of Light and not to its presence. Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.
Gary Zukav
#22. I realized that my father's absence is our slippers. In order to start to get rid of your slippers, you have to admit they are yours, and if you do, then they will get rid of themselves.
Abraham Verghese
#23. Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.
Roland Barthes
#24. Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt ... !
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Umberto Eco
#27. The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.
Alberto Manguel
#28. Absence is worse than death. If you suddenly disappeared without a trace, it's like you had never lived.
Vaddey Ratner
#30. The book should be the written counterpart of the unwritten world; its subject should be what does not exist and cannot exist except when written, but whose absence is obscurely felt by that which exists, in its own incompleteness.
Italo Calvino
#31. Absence Is To Love, What The Wind Is To Fire, When It's a Small Fire The Wind Kills It But When It's a Real Fire It Intensifies It
Diane Von Furstenberg
#32. The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#33. [T]hat finally is the questions, that is the anguish
to abide in God's hiddenness is one thing, to abide in God's absence is altogether something else.
Lauren F. Winner
#34. How shall I abide
In this dull world, which in thy absence is
No better than a sty?
William Shakespeare
#35. This is the first letter I have ever written. That a few marks on this piece of paper can bring you my heart in my absence is a great magic. Life is a constant source of wonder.
Clay Griffith
#36. It is still strange to see the skyline. I have never seen an absence that's so physical. It's possible I will see the absence for the rest of my life, even when there is something else there. Which is ok. The thing to remember when looking at an absence is that you are standing outside of it.
David Levithan
#37. Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
Pablo Neruda
#38. Peace and supreme joy may seem like end-states to practitioners on more difficult spiritual paths, but the path of devotion should be filled with peace and joy from the very beginning. Their absence is an indication that something is amiss. (125)
Prem Prakash
#39. I would give everything, even memory - especially memory - if I could hold Leo again. The weight of his absence is the weight of the entire world. I
Simon Van Booy
#40. There are times when my father's absence is as heavy as a child sitting on my chest.
Hisham Matar
#41. Experiment. Live a little. And remember that the fear of absence is the surest sign that absence is direly needed.
Michael Harris
#42. The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.
Dallin H. Oaks
#43. The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.
Daniel Goleman
#44. Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.
C.J. Langenhoven
#45. His absence is time gained to spool my un-truths.
Rachel Cohn
#46. Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure.
Robin Sieger
#47. Isabel's indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.
Aleksandar Hemon
#48. Birdie's presence was gentle and quiet, but her absence is violent.
Lauren DeStefano
#49. Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
John Dryden
#50. The absence of God is nothing more than the absence of me.
Lionel Suggs
#51. World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.
Dalai Lama XIV
#52. Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.
Tony Robbins
#53. I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.
Joss Whedon
#54. This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.
Dick Armey
#55. The absence of specific knowledge about success is the reason why your journey along the path to success has been halted
Sunday Adelaja
#56. There is a hole in the heart called "absence". You live in it my dear.
Malak El Halabi
#57. Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.
Penn Jillette
#58. Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.
Eckhart Tolle
#59. Death is nothing but absence of physical presence
Mayank Sharma
#60. Respect is not fear and awe; it ... [is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.
Erich Fromm
#61. Courage is not absence of fear; it is control of fear, mastery of fear." - MARK TWAIN
Brian Tracy
#62. There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler
#63. Before we congratulate ourselves upon the absence of certain faults from our nation or society, we ought to ask ourselves why it is that these faults are absent. Are we without the fault because we have the opposite virtue? Or are we without the fault because we have the opposite fault?
G.K. Chesterton
#64. It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man's refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem which besets us.
Billy Graham
#65. Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
Zhuangzi
#66. Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.
Daniel Tammet
#67. Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
John Donne
#68. Abundance is not the absence of scarcity; it is the presence of abundant mentality.
Debasish Mridha
#69. In the absence of real power blood seemed the only alternative.
though he could walk away, and had to walk away, he could not walk away with impunity. he could never be a mordantly amused or merely interested observer of the beast.
Thomas Williams
#70. The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one's kashays are gone, then he becomes the 'owner' of the whole universe.
Dada Bhagwan
#71. Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.
Alfred Adler
#72. No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.
Myrtle Reed
#73. I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#74. In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence
Marcus Aurelius
#75. One thing I knew about the novelist's task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.
Philip Sington
#76. In the absence of grace, there is only right and wrong, black and white, and the endless unknowable gray of performance.
Kara Tippetts
#77. The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
Herodotus
#78. It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, 'Know thyself,' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
George Eliot
#79. You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.
Eve Ensler
#80. Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt
#81. The total absence of desire brings happiness. It also brings freedom and liberation, because whenever something is lacking there are both limits and dependency. Only when nothing at all is lacking is there the possibility of total freedom. Freedom brings happiness. And happiness is salvation.
Rajneesh
#82. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against.
Audrey Niffenegger
#83. Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God's grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.
Stuart Scott
#84. Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
Albert Camus
#85. They come
different and the same
with each it is different and the same
with each the absence of love is different
with each the absence of love is the same
Samuel Beckett
#86. You see, his mother has thrown me out of the house because I was unfaithful to her. Or rather the faith I had wasn't the right kind. Given the absence of mind-reading technology, humans believe monogamy is possible.
Matt Haig
#87. It is far easier to talk about loss than it is to talk about love. It is easier to articulate the pain of love's absence than to describe its presence and meaning in our lives.
Bell Hooks
#88. To love you is to love water that either parches the throat by its absence or drowns me with its anger!
Aleksandr Voinov
#89. And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
Patti Davis
#90. Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.
Jo Nesbo
#91. I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.
Michael Sandel
#92. Silence is not absence of words. Silence is the space where words arise and dissolve. Without silence, words have no meaning
Rashmit Kalra
#93. What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#94. I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others ... Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#95. The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.
Leo Strauss
#96. Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.
Richard Dreyfuss
#97. I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.
Graydon Carter
#98. Not thinking about it much is not proof of healing, nor is the ability to speak about your painful event indifferently. The absence of one or presence of the other proves nothing.
Amber Lynn Natusch
#99. You're at a tricky age. Is it your parent's presence or your parent's absence that's more empowering? I'm no expert. I went from catching fireflies at your age to... well, adulthood.
Nancy Freund
#100. The utter absence of proof for a proposition is proof of a successful conspiracy to destroy all proof.
George F. Will
