Absence Quotes

• We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Sun
  • Should

• I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.

  

  Mitch Leigh
  • Living
  • Cynicism
  • Infectious

• Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Dirty
  • Shame
  • Disappear

• There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

  

  Sean Young
  • Shows
  • Courses
  • Spread

• What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times! O weary reckoning!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Night
  • Week

• The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Criticism
  • Absence
  • Threat

• Conspicuous by his absence.

  

  Tacitus
  • Absence
  • Conspicuous

• Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Goodbye
  • Banishment

• In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.

  

  William Styron
  • Struggle
  • Stills
  • Skins

• Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

  

  Will Self
  • Sometimes
  • Madness
  • Crowds

• 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.

  

  George Sarton
  • Culture
  • Simplicity
  • Greek

• Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

  

  William Cowper
  • Despair
  • Goodbye
  • Absence

• Some servent with no sense of the symbolic had kept the hinges well-oiled during the years of his absence, as if their marital life had merely been cast into temporary abeyance.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Cast
  • Hinges
  • Marital

• The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

  

  William Hague
  • Political
  • Violence
  • Cities

• In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Kill
  • Absence
  • Orders

• ...there's not a single corpse in Shoah (1985). The people who arrived at Treblinka, Belzec or Sobibor were killed within two or three hours and their corpses burned. The proof is not the corpses; the proof is the absence of corpses. There were special details who gathered the dust and threw it into the wind or into the rivers. Nothing of them remained.

  

  Claude Lanzmann
  • Proof
  • Burned
  • Corpses

• There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Talent
  • Virtue
  • Tact

• …Sometimes there are things that people should be afraid of." "Like the dark?" She shook her head. "No, more the absence of light.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Perfect
  • Language
  • Identity

• Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.

  

  Kathleen Tessaro
  • Character
  • Creativity
  • Wrong

• In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • World
  • Dignity
  • Insight

• When we don't get that escape from our work selves, I think we feel its absence on a deep, almost primal level. Leisure is uncommodified, unoccupied time where we get to be truly free, so feeling bad about missing the weekend isn't just, "Damn, I didn't make it to the mall!" It's a profound loss.

  

  Katrina Onstad
  • Thinking
  • Missing
  • Profound

• Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

  

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd
  • Mean
  • Intensity
  • Highest

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