Absence Quotes:

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

- Alberto Manguel

topic: Library, Shade, Absence

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

- Alcibiades

topic: Long Distance Relationship, Delight, Absence, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

- Alexander Sutherland Neill

source: Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”

topic: Family, Children, Absence, Easily Influenced

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Literature, Absence

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

- Alison Bechdel

source: Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Grief, Absence, Form

We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.

- Alistair Begg

topic: Adversity, Absence, Should

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

- Ally Condie

topic: Strange, Absence, Feels

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.

- Amrita Pritam

source: Petra Karin Kelly, Glenn D. Paige (1992). “Nonviolence Speaks to Power”, Matsunaga Inst for Peace

topic: Flower, Violence, Absence, Blooming Flower

In the absence of observers, our universe is dead

- Andrei Linde

topic: Absence, Universe

Darkness is only light's absence.

- Andrew Clements

source: Andrew Clements (2008). “Things That Are”, p.32, Penguin

topic: Light, Darkness, Absence

But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.

- Ann Aguirre

topic: Fighting, Absence, Stomach, Horde

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

- Anna Howard Shaw

topic: Love, Peace, Absence, Unexplained

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

- Anthony de Mello

topic: Love, Absence, Masters, Fear Of Love

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

- Antonin Artaud

topic: Order, Absence, Feels, Opium

Why is love intensified by absence?

- Audrey Niffenegger

topic: Life, Absence

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

topic: Mind, Absence, Individual, Greatest Gifts

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

- B. F. Skinner

topic: Absence, Force, Restraint

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Doe, Absence, Endure

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

source: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin

topic: Doctrine, Tradition, Absence

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Brave, Way, Absence

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

- Bell Hooks

topic: Mean, Choices, Absence

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Believe, Elements, Absence

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

- Bernard Cornwell

source: Bernard Cornwell (1999). “Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur”, p.84, Macmillan

topic: Magic, Doe, Absence

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore

- Bob Goff

topic: Calling, Absence, Shots, Calling The Shots

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

- Bob Kane

topic: Bills, Absence, Fingers

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

- Brendan Behan

source: The Hostage act 1 (1958)

topic: Life, Absence, Court, Irish Author, Being Irish

The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Taken, Mind, Absence, Indivisible

In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered, courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it's choosing to act in spite of the fear. You could say that without fear, you can't have genuine courage.

- Bruce Wilkinson

topic: Strong, Ordinary, Absence

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

- Bryan Appleyard

topic: World, May, Absence, Modernity

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

- C.J. Langenhoven

topic: Enemy, Absence

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived

- Cameron Dokey

source: Cameron Dokey (2009). “Beauty Sleep”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

topic: Miracle, Absence

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Absence, Evidence

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

- Carlos Fuentes

source: Carlos Fuentes (2012). “Happy Families”, p.73, A&C Black

topic: Isolation, Absence, Filled

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

topic: Forget, Absence, Made

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

- Chapman Cohen

topic: Atheism, Belief, Absence

The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Groups, Links, Absence

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

- Charles Lamb

topic: Mind, Body, Absence, Your Absence

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

topic: Home, Men, Absence

The absence of fear is love.

- Chris Murphy

topic: Fear, Absence

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

- Daisy Ashford

source: 'The Young Visiters' (1919) ch. 8

topic: Ashes, Absence, Grapes, Sour Grapes

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

- Danny Silk

topic: Chaos, Conflict, Absence

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

- Dennis Covington

topic: Mystery, Absence

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

- Derek Bailey

topic: Thinking, Play, Absence

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

- Diane de Poitiers

topic: Sick, Absence, Fallen

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

- Donald E. Williams, Jr.

topic: Ironic, Absence, Decorum

. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.

- Donald M. MacKinnon

topic: Way, Problem, Absence, Soundness

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

- Donald Rumsfeld

topic: Absence, Evidence

When a person disappears, everything becomes impregnated with that person's presence. Every single object as well as every space becomes a reminder of absence, as if absence were more important than presence.

- Doris Salcedo

topic: Space, Important, Absence, Sculptors, Disappearance

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

- Ed Bliss

topic: Failure, Mean, Absence

Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate

- Edmund Spenser

topic: Mourning, Absence, Mates

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Inspirational, Trials, Absence, Incessant, Proximity

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

- Edsger Dijkstra

source: "Notes On Structured Programming" by Edsger Dijkstra, April 1970.

topic: Bugs, Absence, Program

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

- Edsger Dijkstra

topic: Bugs, Absence, Programming

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

- Elena Ferrante

topic: Absence, Anonymity

We have really no absent friends.

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Absence, Absent, Absent Friends

If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If

- Esther Hicks

topic: Want, Absence, Reason

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

- Eugene Delacroix

topic: Costumes, Absence, Modern, Wretchedness

Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

- Frederic Bastiat

topic: Competition, Oppression, Absence, Economic Competition

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Opponents, Virtue, Absence

What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.

- Gary Zukav

topic: Light, Evil, Absence, Light Of Love

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

- Gayle Forman

source: FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Oct 07, 2015

topic: Space, Sometimes, Absence, Splitting

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

- Gayle Forman

topic: Feelings, Absence, Calculus, Where She Went

With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.

- Geno Auriemma

topic: Pressure, Absence, Great Things

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

topic: Pie, Way, Absence, Scientific Knowledge, History Of Science

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

- Gerald Brenan

topic: Grief, Missing, Absence

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

- Gilles Deleuze

topic: Men, Landscape, Absence

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

- Hans Urs von Balthasar

topic: Men, Faces, Absence

Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.

- Helen Lynd

topic: Freedom, Absence, Timeless

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

- Helmut Kohl

source: "With the stroke of a pen, peace comes to Bosnia". www.cnn.com. December 14, 1995.

topic: War, Absence

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.

- Heloise

topic: Self, Absence

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Soul, Elements, Absence

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

- Henry Adams

topic: Responsibility, Liberty, Absence, Ignoring Facts

The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.

- Henry Steele Commager

source: "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.

topic: Absence, Danger, Orthodox

The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.

- Henry Steele Commager

topic: Faces, Kind, Absence

Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.

- Hermann Adler

source: "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs" by Joseph H. Hertz, p. 933, (One-volume edition), 1937.

topic: Absence, Source, Strife, Misconduct

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

topic: Love, Long, Absence

Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.

- Horatius Bonar

source: Horatius Bonar, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS”, Lulu.com

topic: Want, Recognition, Absence, Acknowledgment

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

- Idries Shah

topic: May, Wonderful, Absence

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

- Irshad Manji

topic: Important, Recognition, Absence

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

- Isaac Newton

source: "Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective", Vol. 1, Issues 7-12, p. 47, 1978.

topic: Thumbs, Absence, Proof, Proof That God Exists

We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke an indefinable impression: as a result of this sighting backward in time, the absence of the object becomes a presence one can feel.

- Ivan Chtcheglov

source: Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.9, Bread and Circuses Publishing

topic: Firsts, Absence, Results

Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

- J. D. Greear

topic: Jesus, Doubt, Absence

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

- Jacques Lacan

topic: Absence, Units, Symbols

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.

- Jalal Talabani

topic: Country, Iraq, Absence

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

- James Fox

source: James Fox (1996). “Killer on Campus”

topic: Punishment, Despair, Absence

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

- James Howell

topic: Distance, Sometimes, Absence, Real Value

Absence, the highest form of presence.

- James Joyce

source: James Joyce (1965). “The dead”

topic: Absence, Form

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Heart, Absence, Forgetful, Absence Makes The Heart, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

- James Neil Hollingworth

topic: Courage, Judgement, Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not,

- Janet Yellen

source: "Why Janet Yellen Should Be Fed Chair (In 4 Quotes)" By Mark Gongloff, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2013.

topic: Routine, Employment, Absence, Capitalist Economy

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Men, Solitude, Absence

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

- Jeffrey Zeldman

source: "Infographics and marketing: the good, the bad and the ugly" by Freddie Ossberg, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

topic: Design, Absence, Decoration, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Generosity, Giving, Absence

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Opportunity, Absence, Wells

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

- John Cusack

topic: Absence

Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

- John Eldredge

source: John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Jesus, Absence, Danger

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

- John Peter Zenger

topic: Leadership, Weakness, Absence, Outstanding Leaders, Outstanding Leadership

Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.

- John Rechy

source: John Rechy (2011). “City of Night”, p.329, Souvenir Press

topic: Loneliness, Absence, Enough

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

source: "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 2-3, Address to the Electors of the City of London (April 6, 1859), 1922.

topic: Bills, Absence, Lord, Derby

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.

- John Stuart Mackenzie

source: "An Introduction to Social Philosophy". Book by John Stuart Mackenzie (p. 383), 1895.

topic: Democracy, Culture, Absence

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

- Joko Beck

topic: Goal, Enlightenment, Absence, Dropping Things, Enlightenment And Love

In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.

- Jonathan Cainer

topic: Absence, Instinct, Certainty

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter,

- Jonathan Ive

source: "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

topic: Simplicity, Absence, Clutter, Product Design, Simplicity In Design

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

- Jonathan Ive

topic: Simple, Design, Absence

This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Hate, Absence, Everything Is Illuminated

He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn't bear to keep it, but he couldn't bear to destroy it either.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Making Love, Bears, Absence

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

- Joseph Addison

source: Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.402

topic: Beauty, Absence, Nature Beauty

... the absence of theistic belief.

- Joseph McCabe

source: "A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1948.

topic: Atheism, Belief, Absence

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

- Josephine Lawrence

topic: Real, Separation, Absence

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

- Judith Viorst

topic: Heart, Frozen, Absence, Absence Makes The Heart

By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable.

- Justus von Liebig

source: Justus von Liebig (1855). “Principles of agricultural chemistry with special reference to the late researches made in England: By Justus von Liebig. (Ed. by William Gregory)”, p.31

topic: Life, Soil, Absence

Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.

- Kabir

topic: Believe, Absence, Thirsty

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

- Karl Popper

topic: Ignorance, Absence, Refusal, Paradise On Earth

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is taking a step forward when you are afraid.

- Ken McGrath

topic: Courage, Steps, Absence, Steps Forward

How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered

- Kristin Cashore

topic: People, Sometimes, Absence

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

- L. Ron Hubbard

topic: Insecurity, Absence, Security

in order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times ...

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Order, Absence, Enjoy

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

- Linda Pastan

topic: Bed, Would Be, Absence, Mattresses

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

- Lisa Kleypas

topic: Wish, New Life, Absence, Indoor Plumbing, Plumbing

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

topic: Heart, Roving, Absence

Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

- Louis Aragon

topic: Real, Eruption, Absence

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

- Marcel Carne

topic: Mother, Absence, Stills

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Pain, Absence, Pleasure

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Waiting, Absence

Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be...

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Baby, Absence, Immortality

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Atheism, Absence, Reverse

Consensus is the absence of leadership.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Absence, Consensus

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Fall, Falling Apart, Absence, Slowly But Surely

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

- Marie Lu

source: Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.216, Penguin

topic: Hurt, Absence, It Hurts

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

- Mark Epstein

source: Mark Epstein (2013). “Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.46, Basic Books

topic: Kind, Absence, Difficult

Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.

- Mark Rippetoe

topic: Effort, Normal, Absence, Barbell

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

- Mark Strand

topic: Missing, Fields, Absence

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mastery, Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Adversity

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

- Martin Freeman

topic: Absence, True Hero

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

- Martin Rees

source: Quoted in Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, rev. ed., ed. B. M. Oliver and J. Billingham (1973). An earlier version by A. R. Burn appeared in a book review by Burn in The Classical Review, June 1969: "absence of evidence is not identical with evidence of absence."

topic: Science, Absence, Evidence, Proof That God Exists, Reasoning

I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated-the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else.

- Marwan Barghouti

topic: Guy, Helping, Absence, Pacifism, Self Help

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

- May Sarton

topic: Absence

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

- Michel de Certeau

topic: Gaps, Absence

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

- Michel Houellebecq

topic: Boredom, Want, Absence

Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

- Mignon McLaughlin

topic: Absence, Coarse, Vulgar

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

- Mike Murdock

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from Jan 02, 2014

topic: Loneliness, Affection, Absence

Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.

- Momofuku Ando

source: "If You Only Visit One Weird Museum In 2016, Let It Be This One" by Parker Hilton, uproxx.com. March 11, 2016.

topic: Inspiration, Tenacity, Absence

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

- Muhammad Yunus

topic: Conflict, Sometimes, Absence

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

- Myles Munroe

topic: Trying, Absence, Neglect

What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.

- Naomi Klein

topic: Space, Kind, Absence

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

topic: Doctors, Absence, Evidence

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Courage, Adequacy, Absence

Good health is not the absence of symptoms, it is the presence of peace.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Absence, Good Health, Symptoms

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

- Nick Rahall

topic: Unique, Wilderness, Absence

Absence of pain makes anything possible

- Nicole Blackman

source: Nicole Blackman (2002). “Blood Sugar”, Akashic Books

topic: Pain, Absence

In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.

- Oren Lyons

topic: Sacred, Absence

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Lying, Healthy, Absence

A short absence is the safest.

- Ovid

topic: Safety, Absence

Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.

- Patrick Dodson

topic: Leadership, Impossible, Absence, Lack Of Leadership, Elusive

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

- Patti Davis

topic: Absence, False Hope

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

- Paul the Apostle

topic: Spirit, Absence

Fear is the absence of faith.

- Paul Tillich

topic: Absence

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

- Paul Wolfowitz

topic: Weight, World, Absence, Arab World

Wellness is not the absence of pain ..... But the absence of limitation

- Pete Egoscue

topic: Pain, Wellness, Absence

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

- Petrarch

topic: Soul, Breathe, Absence, Your Absence

Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.

- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

topic: Anarchy, Sovereign, Absence

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: War, Catholic, Absence, Unshakable Faith

Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

- Pope Paul VI

topic: Warfare, Absence, Catholicism

Since when does absence of evidence equate to evidence of absence?

- Prince Ea

topic: Doe, Absence, Evidence

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

- Propertius

source: "Elegies, II". Book by Sextus Propertius, c. 24 B.C.

topic: Speech, Speak, Absence

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

- PZ Myers

topic: Tangible, Excuse, Absence

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

- Ramana Maharshi

topic: Doubt, Surrender, Absence

Separation is the absence of Love, and Love is the absence of separation.

- Ramesh S Balsekar

topic: Love, Separation, Absence

Real bliss is the absence of the wanting of bliss

- Ramesh S Balsekar

topic: Real, Bliss, Absence

Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.

- Randall "Tex" Cobb

topic: Positive, Absence, Dealing With It, Courage And Leadership, Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

- Ray Kroc

topic: Important, Guarantees, Absence, Schooling

My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.

- Rebecca Lim

source: Rebecca Lim (2010). “Mercy (Mercy, Book 1)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

topic: Real, Sleep, Absence

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

- Reggie Watts

topic: Essence, Confusion, Absence

Courage is not the absence of fear

- Richard Stengel

topic: Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational Recovery

The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.

- Rita Zahara

topic: Doe, Absence

Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.

- Robert Buettner

source: Robert Buettner (2005). “Orphan's Destiny”

topic: Atheist, Absence, Proof, Mathematical Proof

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

- Robert Charles Wilson

topic: Absence, Fear Of Death, Dread

In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.

- Robert Fritz

topic: Dream, Absence, Pettiness, Learning Organization

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid

- Robert Liparulo

topic: Bravery, Absence, Forging Ahead, Living In Fear, Fears Of Life

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

- Robert M. Pirsig

topic: Essence, Quality, Absence, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.

- Robin Parrish

topic: Mean, Fearless, Absence

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

- Sam Storms

source: Sam Storms (2014). “Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God”, p.27, Tyndale House

topic: Joy, Suffering, Absence, Joy God

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

- Sanford Meisner

source: Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.29, Vintage

topic: Silence, Absence, Theater

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

- Scott Turow

topic: Courage, Dignity, Absence

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Rumor, Absence, Shows

The absence of disease is not health.

- Shawn Achor

topic: Disease, Absence

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

- Sheila Jeffreys

topic: Opposites, Absence, Femininity, Binary

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

- Shelagh Delaney

source: Shelagh Delaney (1959). “A Taste of Honey: A Play”, p.17, Grove Press

topic: Absence, Consolation, Ultimate

Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.

- Sherry Argov

topic: Men, Absence

... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.

- Shirley Boone

source: Shirley Boone (1972). “ONE WOMAN'S LIBERATION”

topic: Boundaries, Absence, Ability

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

- Simon Mawer

topic: Sin, Absence

But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?

- Simon Van Booy

topic: Love You, People, Absence

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

- Simone Weil

topic: Absence, Feels

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

- Sister Souljah

source: "We Are At War". Speech at Cheyney State University, www.blackpast.org. 1994.

topic: Racism, Racist, Absence

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

- Stacy Schiff

topic: Facts, Absence, Myth

The absence of him is everywhere I look.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Looks, Absence, Twilight Movie

But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Looks, Absence, Holes, New Moon, Twilight Movie

The strongest presence is so often an absence.

- Steve Rasnic Tem

source: Steve Rasnic Tem (2012). “Deadfall Hotel”, p.57, Solaris

topic: Absence, Strongest

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

- Stuart Wilde

topic: Bravery, Absence, Ability

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

- Sun Ra

topic: Absence