Absence Quotes - page 2

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. (Václav Havel)
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. View quote
Henry Adams
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. View quote
Zhuangzi
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for. View quote
Elijah Wood
Absence - that common cure of love. View quote
Lord Byron
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. View quote
Thomas Paine
Is not absence death to those who love. (Alexander Pope)
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity. View quote
Jonathan Ive
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. View quote
Antonin Artaud
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. View quote
Elizabeth Bowen
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also. View quote
Roger Zelazny
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. View quote
Joseph Campbell
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man. View quote
Bliss Carman
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart. View quote
Marianne Williamson
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, and justice. (Baruch Spinoza)
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. View quote
Charles Lamb
I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal. View quote
Peter Cook
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. View quote
Havelock Ellis