Absence Quotes - Page 10

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.

The time will come, and probably during 2009, that the only way the U.S. will be able to fund its deficits is to create money by printing it. The Treasury will have to sell bonds, and, in the absence of foreign buyers, the Fed will have to print the money to buy them. The consequence will be runaway inflation, increasing interest rates, recession, and inevitable tax increases on all Americans.

Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

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

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

Woman absent is woman dead.

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

Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.

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

True friends don't say good-bye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

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

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

You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

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

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"]

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?

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

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.

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

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.