Absence Quotes
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
Freya Stark
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Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound.
Tom Stoppard
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For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
Jacques Lacan
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Zhuangzi
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Father absence has been implicated in anorexia nervosa, in which daughters may exhibit literal father hunger by starving themselves.
Victoria Secunda
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When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
Sherman Alexie
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan
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Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.
Yvon Chouinard
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One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.
Tony Blair
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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
Andrew Solomon
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Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we will hold it as a sacred inviolable thing. But in the absence of that infallible criterion, we have all an equal right to grope about in our search of it, and no body and no school nor clique must be allowed to set up a standard of orthodoxy which shall bar the freedom of scientific inquiry.
William Stanley Jevons