Absence Quotes - Page 3

Real bliss is the absence of the wanting of bliss

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

Art is the absence of fear.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

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

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

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

Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.

Patience is the absence of expectation.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.