Top 1200 Absence Quotes & Sayings - Page 9
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.
If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.
It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral triumph.
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you hurt your own flesh.
Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul.
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.
The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote. Our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in their absence, are present.
Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.
An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.
In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.
I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.
As far as my absence from the public eye is concerned, that's because I'm publicity shy - something which is not considered good nowadays.
'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.
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.
Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.
Forgiveness isn't just the absence of anger. I think it's also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.
I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.
I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.
The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.
Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.
The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However, how to do this is a complicated issue.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.
The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.
Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.
Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?
Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.
The rise of Hamas is a product of the failures of political will in the international community, of the absence of the peace process, of the increase in violence and ideology.
