Absence Quotes

• I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Long
  • Design
  • Politics

• Enter any moment devoid of agenda, with an absence of posturing, and with your only intention being to send love to everyone you meet or even think of... Happiness, miracles and inner peace will follow.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Peace
  • Miracles
  • Agenda

• Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Taste
  • Absence

• Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

  

  George Fetherling
  • Single
  • Taught
  • Shown

• Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.

  

  Adam Silvera
  • Dead
  • Loss
  • Absence

• Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.

  

  Adyashanti
  • Enlightenment
  • Resistance
  • Absence

• Art is the absence of fear.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Art
  • Fear
  • Art Is

• What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Absence
  • Bears

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

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Criticism
  • Absence
  • Threat

• Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.

  

  George Linley
  • Missing
  • Hours
  • Tranquil

• All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

  

  Moliere
  • Absence
  • Excess

• 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

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

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Kill
  • Absence
  • Orders

• Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow your enemies into smithereens.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Enemy
  • Ability
  • Conflict

• The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

  

  George Washington
  • Friendship
  • Circumstances
  • Renewal

• 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

• But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Children
  • Relationship

• Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. Mere orderliness leads to increasing impoverishment and finally to the lowest possible level of structure, no longer clearly distinguishable from chaos, which is the absence of order. A counterprinciple is needed, to which orderliness is secondary. It must supply what is to be ordered.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Men
  • Chaos
  • Levels

• The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.

  

  David E. Sorensen
  • Jesus
  • Suffering
  • Conflict

• Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence reduces the rarest delicacy to hopeless insipidity, and dinner to despair.

  

  Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • Food
  • Pleasure
  • Kitchen

• 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.

  

  George Sarton
  • Intimate
  • Chickens
  • Culinary

• In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the

  

  Raoul Vaneigem
  • Century
  • Stealing
  • Exhausted

• Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

  

  Judith Viorst
  • Heart
  • Absence
  • Frozen

• In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Issues
  • Critical

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