Absence Quotes

• It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Law
  • Slavery
  • Southern

• Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.

  

  Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
  • Love
  • Fire
  • Wind

• 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
  • Father
  • Creation
  • Parenting

• Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • God
  • Evil
  • Absence

• A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one and only reality. In such cases we have a sense in which the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be performer and observer of the same show. Presumably he introcepts or incorporates the standards he attempts to maintain in the presence of others so that even in their absence his conscience requires him to act in a socially proper way.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Reality
  • Moments
  • Taken

• To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

  

  William Gibson
  • Thinking
  • Guilty
  • Unbearable

• 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
  • Excitement
  • Grasp
  • Photographic

• It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• 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
  • Difference
  • Presence
  • Beloved

• The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • She
  • Health

• For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived...

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Miracle
  • Hopes
  • Arrived

• Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Ability
  • Bravery
  • Terrified

• Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Garden
  • Endure
  • Neglect

• The absence of real pressures from within Iraqi society, from Iran, from the world at large, or even from his own party leaves those of us who would write about the “cause” of this war with nothing to evaluate “objectively” and argue about.

  

  Kanan Makiya
  • Society
  • Pressure
  • Iraqi

• Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Subjects
  • Costume
  • Nude

• Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

  

  William Cowper
  • inspirational
  • Healthy
  • Motivational

• Perhaps the greatest lesson Huxley learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

  

  Adrian Desmond
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Reading

• No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Hearts
  • Absence
  • Prone

• Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

  

  Petrarch
  • Soul
  • Breathe
  • Someone

• It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.

  

  Camilla Gibb
  • Dead
  • Who I Am
  • His

• The condition of the United States positively announces the lack of substance, of unifying principle from the start: that consensus is a lie, and that the absence of consensus is a necessary condition for, not the dissolution of the political entity, and its reconstruction according to both viral and virtual principles, which, are, in practice, user-generated.

  

  Davis Schneiderman
  • Lying
  • Consensus
  • Reconstruction

• There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe - and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future - will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Absence
  • Relieves
  • German Army

• Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Life
  • Impossible
  • Humor

• Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Absence
  • Affairs
  • Conduct

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