Absence Quotes

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

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.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

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.

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.

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