Absence Quotes - Page 5

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

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.

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

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.

Consensus is the absence of leadership.

In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.