Absence Quotes - Page 9

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

The strongest presence is so often an absence.

The color white is the absence of memory.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.

Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.

The absence of war is not peace.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.