Top 100 Quotes About Absence
#1. It begins with absence and desire.
It begins with blood and fear.
It begins with a discovery of witches.
Deborah Harkness
#2. Solitude is not absence of love, but its complement
Paulo Coelho
#3. Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.
Mildred Blaxter
#4. Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
Zhuangzi
#5. Harald seemed to be an invisible but ever-present spirit who affected life in the village by his absence.
Stieg Larsson
#6. Zen is the complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority.
Brad Warner
#7. There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.
Lee Hammond
#8. No whereto in the absence of space.
Toba Beta
#9. In higher samadhi, in absence of any support, the consciousness is absorbed within itself in perfect awareness, clarity and peacefulness.
Amit Ray
#10. There is something I have learned since being paralyzed, and that is that in the absence of sensory information, the imagination always tends to the grotesque.
Patrick McGrath
#11. I needed no man to empower me. I had my father to thank for that much; his absence in most everyday things had prepared me well enough to stand on my own.
Kerri Maniscalco
#12. A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching the romantic movie, but love in a sense of no absence.
Frederick Lenz
#14. I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.
Haruki Murakami
#15. Absence of noise is not a natural condition; all human senses require some input. If they are deprived of it, the mind manufactures its own substitutes.
Arthur C. Clarke
#16. One binds the worldly life with bad thoughts; one binds the worldly life with good thoughts. With the absence of thoughts (avichaar) there is moksha [liberation].
Dada Bhagwan
#17. Take for example the commencement address he [James Garfield] delivered at his alma mater Hiram College in the summer of 1880 ... The only thing stopping this address from turning into a slacker parable is the absence of the word 'dude'.
Sarah Vowell
#18. The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#19. 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.
Jonathan Ive
#20. Not just the absence of sound, but positive, warm, burnished silence.
Jincy Willett
#21. Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#22. The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.
Timothy Keller
#24. Silence is not simply the absence of noise or the shutdown of communication with the outside world, but rather a process of coming to stillness.
Brennan Manning
#25. No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.
Serge Gainsbourg
#26. The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.
Bruce Lee
#27. There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
George Eliot
#28. What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.
Naomi Klein
#29. peace is not about the absence of conflict but it is about the presence of sincerity.
Toge Aprilianto
#30. Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.
W. Rolfe Kerr
#31. My experiment in money exchange was the temptation to set up a bank. The absence of any Islamic banking was also another factor in establishing Al-Rajhi Bank, which is now the world's biggest Islamic lender by market value.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
#32. Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.
Marianne Williamson
#33. Weightlessness makes astronauts lose taste and smell in space. In the absence of gravity, molecules cannot be volatile, so few of them get into our noses deeply enough to register as odors. This is a problem for nutritionists designing space food.
Diane Ackerman
#34. I suddenly became conscious that, for the first time in my whole life, I was essential to somebody. I could not enter a room without realising that he was instantly aware of my presence; I could not leave a room without knowing that he would at once feel and regret my absence.
Florence L. Barclay
#35. Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately avoid violence and adopt methods to solve the problem through peaceful means. That is real peace.
Dalai Lama
#36. Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.
Richard Crashaw
#37. In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.
William Styron
#38. In a state of anomie, the absence of justice becomes the panacea for justice
Dauglas Dauglas
#39. Consider my Lover; the yellow church
of his skin, the clean wells of his ears;
How the notes of a song come to him
like birds descending on a power line;
How in his absence I am of two
throats
each of them cramped.
Cecilia Llompart
#40. All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.
Andre Bazin
#41. Peace is not the absence of fear but the presence love and care.
Debasish Mridha
#43. But what I found most interesting was that Aaron had apparently found a way to pass the time without her. Beside him, holding his hand, was a Moroi girl who looked about eleven but had to be older, unless he'd become a pedophile during our absence.
Richelle Mead
#44. Always in my love, sudden night.
Always in myself, my enemy.
And always in my always, the same absence.
Carlos Drummond De Andrade
#45. Our age could be characterized as a manifold experiment in faithlessness, and if it has as yet produced no effective understanding of the practicalities of faith, it has certainly produced massive evidence of the damage and disorder of its absence.
Wendell Berry
#46. That's the hardest part,' he says. 'The absence of certainty.' - Tucker
Cynthia Hand
#47. 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
#48. Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need.
Poul Hartling
#49. What it comes down to for me is that I'd rather us make bad decisions as a group, than to live in the absence of freedom.
Blake Crouch
#50. I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don't think that that should be perpetuated. I'm sorry I'm sounding like an old farty, snob, but it bothers me.
Tim Gunn
#51. One useful trick, I discovered, is to avoid listening to the question of the interviewer, and answer with whatever I have been thinking about recently. Remarkably, neither the interviewers nor the public notices the absence of correlation between question and answer.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#52. He has no idea that leaving me here alone has allowed the sorrow to sneak up in his absence and take over my soul.
Shannon Maynard
#53. Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist .
Rajneesh
#54. Bernard had become, not so much important to her as he was natural to her whole being. He was as much a part of her thoughts as breath, food, and sleep. At once present and not present, conspicuous with his absence and filling her with a sense of completion when he was there.
Jim Butcher
#55. Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.
Joyce Meyer
#56. In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.
Joseph Addison
#57. We will never arrive to the notion of total freedom, that is, the absence of cause
Leo Tolstoy
#58. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation.
Bryan Stevenson
#59. Self-control and deliberate thought apparently draw on the same limited budget of effort.... This is how the law of least effort comes to be a law. Even in the absence of time pressure, maintaining a coherent train of thought requires discipline.
Daniel Kahneman
#60. If he was aware of anything beyond the fight, it was of an absence, a lack that persisted. The flashes of brilliance, the insouciant sword work, the bright presence at his side was instead a gap, half filled by Nikandros's steadier, more practical style.
C.S. Pacat
#61. My experience is that the absence of firm prior resolve results in regular rationalization.
John Piper
#62. In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.
Bryan Stevenson
#63. The presence is not deleted before the vacuum is cleared before a redoubling of presence that erases the opposition of the presence and absence
Jean Baudrillard
#64. It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States ... became the first nation in the world to recognize what was prophesized throughout the Old Testament about Israel returning after its absence.
Louie Gohmert
#65. White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
G.K. Chesterton
#66. Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.
Henry Ward Beecher
#67. Let love take hold of you and change you. At first through its presence then through its absence.
Elif Shafak
#68. Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper
#69. I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
Veronica Roth
#70. And guess what he finds. Nothing. And I mean that literally. Not a de Brogliesque absence of presence but a Tertullian presence of absence.
Evan Dara
#71. It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. The names called privative, therefore, connote two things; the absence of certain attributes, and the presence of others, from which the presence also of the former might naturally have been expected.
John Stuart Mill
#73. Faith is the absence of peace, and reflection of fear.
Lionel Suggs
#74. For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.
Nick Bantock
#75. Poor Fa'a, I said, although my answer was more reflexive than anything else. He was a good, kind person, and although I thought he was being melodramatic, I appreciated his compassion. In the absence of action, Poor Fa'a seemed to be the only thing to say.
Hanya Yanagihara
#76. Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.
Wes Fesler
#77. Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It
William Shakespeare
#78. How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?
You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more
Milan Kundera
#79. Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#82. I read once that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than that fear.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#83. The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
Bernard Cornwell
#84. We can also see from the turkey story the mother of all harmful mistakes: mistaking absence of evidence (of harm) for evidence of absence,
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#85. Being brave is not the absence of fear, but having courage greater than it to dare!
Manuela George-Izunwa
#86. The absence of an empathetic listener, or more radically, the absence of an addressable other, an other who can hear the anguish of one's memories and thus affirm and recognize their realness, annihilates the story
Dori Laub
#87. Four givens are particularly relevant for psycho-therapy: the inevitability of death for each of us and for those we love; the freedom to make our lives as we will; our ultimate aloneness; and, finally, the absence of any obvious meaning or sense to life.
Irvin D. Yalom
#88. Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by hir wordes ne hir face
Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence,
Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#89. The collar came first, and when Guerin drew it from his neck he felt the collar's absence like a lightness, his spine unfurling, his shoulders settling.
Like a lie, cracking and dropping from him.
C.S. Pacat
#90. There are times when my father's absence is as heavy as a child sitting on my chest.
Hisham Matar
#91. When the presence is like thunderstorm , the absence prevail deep dark silence.
Upasana Banerjee
#92. Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear ...
Peter McWilliams
#93. More my son, I found myself thinking. You were never really there for him. Not emotionally. You were just the absence he was always striving to impress.
Jojo Moyes
#94. She was the kind of woman who always surprised you with the realization that she was just as lovely as you remembered, though it hardly seemed possible in her absence.
Tom Perrotta
#95. Poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.
Jane Jacobs
#96. I loved the feeling of discovery, of not knowing how much I wanted something until I had discovered its absence.
Roshani Chokshi
#97. 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.
Bram Fischer
#98. 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
#99. Absence of doubt? No, nothing so egotistic as that. Nimander has plenty of doubts, so many that he's lost his fear of them. He accepts them as easily as anything else. Is that the secret? Is that the very definition of greatness? He
Steven Erikson
#100. Work hard for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.
Sally Willard Burbank
