Absence Quotes - Page 13

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

Absence of pain makes anything possible

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

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.

The absent feel and fear every ill.

In the absence of big budgets, start-ups learned how to hack the system to build their companies.

When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.

I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.

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

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

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

The complete absence of the story - that was the best thing about this whole thing, because you know that nothing's going to happen and everything's going to happen. It's just the gaze. You create your own zone.

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.

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

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.

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

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.

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.

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered

Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.