Absence Quotes - Page 8

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

Wellness is not the absence of pain ..... But the absence of limitation

A short absence is the safest.

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.

What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.

. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or non-existence.

Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.