Absence Quotes - Page 11

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

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

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

The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and dis­turbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.

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

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

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

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

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.

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

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

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

Your absence weighs more than someone else’s presence

Passion, this absolute desire that can never be filled when it is driven by the absence of the other.

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.

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

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

I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

Absence of occupation is not rest.