Browsing Topic Best Absence Quotes

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it.

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

There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

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

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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

Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It’s the absence of religion, and that’s a wonderful thing.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

This concern with the basic condition of freedom — the absence of physical constraint — is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free — to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, ‘Thy will be done,’ it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

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

I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

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

Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.

For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in women, sometimes by a pattern of loving and leaving them.

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love, an abstinence from physical pleasures is called brahmacharya, and anyone who wishes to be free from sex must develop his capacity to love. Freedom from sex cannot be achieved through supersession. Liberation from sex is only possible through love.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen,What old December’s bareness everywhere!

In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected… piecemeal, superficially adorned projects… We are over our heads.

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

I’m constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, ‘I don’t know,’ but the religionist says, ‘I believe.’

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

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

I mean she’s Cleopatra… shouldn’t she and Antony have known better? They were so different…Variety is the spice of lifeAnd from a thousand miles apartAbsence makes the heart grow fonder