Absence Quotes
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid -
I relate to that - he inspires me across the board. His music inspires me and reminds me to maintain honesty in the things that I do, to have an absence of fear. Listening to Earl Sweatshirt's music is like therapy to me.
Erykah Badu
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One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you their own stories, is that there's this paradox of the absence of critical information.
Manning Marable -
How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.
E. L. Konigsburg -
You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you answer. Don’t ask why this delights me.
Rumi -
The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.
Ursula Hegi -
Love has no value in the absence of truth.
C. J. Anderson -
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
W. S. Merwin
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
William Cowper -
I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
Julia Roberts -
The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.
Meriwether Lewis -
The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
Antonio Machado -
The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.
Charles de Foucauld -
So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.
Plutarch
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I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference
Rumi -
Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.
J. D. Greear -
Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence
William P. Young -
It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
William Booth -
There were more fights, more arguments, more yelling in the night, more long absences. Until it seemed as if anything would be better than living with these people who hated each other.
Esmeralda Santiago -
To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.
William Gibson
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Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
Kabir -
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
Marianne Williamson -
In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.
Brassaï -
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper