Browsing Topic Best Absence Quotes

If someone doesn’t appreciate your presence, make them appreciate your absence.

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

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

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.

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

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.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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.

Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one’s group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill. Who cares if millions of mice and rats are vivisected? They’re ‘only rodents’. What does it matter if billions of chickens live in misery until they die in pain and fear? They’re ‘just chickens’. They aren’t human, so they don’t count. Victimizers lack empathy for their victims, but absence of empathy doesn’t justify victimization, whether the victims are human or nonhuman.

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives.

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

For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a serious strategist – on the premises of Russian history. Understanding US values and psychology are not his strong suits. Nor has understanding Russian history and psychology been a strong point among US policymakers.’

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.