Absence Quotes

My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. View quote
Mark Twain
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Absence extinguishes the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. View quote
Carl Sagan
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. View quote
Wole Soyinka
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. View quote
Henry Kissinger
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Total absence of humor renders life impossible. View quote
Colette
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. (Brendan Behan)
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. View quote
William Cowper
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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. View quote
Arthur Miller
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? View quote
Arthur Miller
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks. View quote
Milan Kundera
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. View quote
William Hazlitt
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. View quote
Aleister Crowley
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. View quote
Alan Greenspan
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. (Colette)
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. View quote
Willa Cather
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. View quote
Jean Henri Fabre
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. View quote
William Cowper