Top 1200 Absence Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest.

I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.

In the absence of big budgets, start-ups learned how to hack the system to build their companies.

Neymar has the capability to be a leader in the absence of Leo. He's one of those players who can make the team feel better.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.

True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw.

In the absence of a written constitution, we still rely far too heavily in the U.K. on unwritten and unenforceable 'constitutional conventions.'

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

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

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

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

This was the wonder of advertising; the complete absence of cynicism. It may have many mansions, but it has no room for Doubting Thomases.

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Chris' absence is very much felt. There's just a huge void in our home life.

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

Indictments obtained in the absence of sufficient proof under the law do not stand up and are not fundamentally fair to anyone.

The youth of Punjab is directionless in the absence of job opportunities which drag them deep into the drug net.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges us

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!

Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.