Absence Quotes - page 3

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary She I love is far away. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? View quote
Augustine of Hippo
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. View quote
Isaac Newton
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them. View quote
Josh Billings
Thus the Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit. View quote
John Ralston Saul
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. View quote
Charles Cooley
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. View quote
Gerald Jampolsky
Hell is the absence of the people you long for. View quote
Emily St. John Mandel
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. (Laura Hillenbrand)
It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots. View quote
Virgil Goode
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. View quote
Thomas Fuller
All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom. View quote
Maimonides
The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of that property are considered by them as two opposites, they treat, e. g., blindness and sight, death and life, in the same way as heat and cold. Therefore they say, without any qualification, non-existence does not require any agent, an agent is required when something is produced. View quote
Maimonides
Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude. View quote
George Sarton
The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence. View quote
George Sarton
Competition is merely the absence of oppression. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs. View quote
S. M. Stirling
Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. (John Donne)
For I am every dead thing, In whom love wrought new alchemy. For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not. View quote
John Donne
Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it. View quote
Marguerite Duras
The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete. View quote
Bruce Lee
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all I can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. The painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of colour. View quote
Gerhard Richter