Quotes with absence

  • I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
  • In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
  • Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
  • Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the ''breadwinner ethic.''
  • Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
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  • William Cowper Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Comte DeBussy-Rabutin Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
    Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
     
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  • Baruch Spinoza For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
    Tractatus Politicus
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Brendan Behan I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
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  • Gerald G. Jampolsky Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    American psychiatrist, Lecturer, writer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Lord George Byron 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.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Ovid A short absence is the safest.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alexander Pope Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
    Letter to Jonathan Swift (14 december 1725)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Elizabeth Ashley Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
    Elizabeth Ashley
    American actress of theatre, film, and television (1939 - )
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  • Freya Stark Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
    Freya Stark
    British travel story writer (1893 - 1993)
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  • Thomas Haynes Bayly Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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  • William Cowper Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Michael Crichton Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
    Michael Crichton
    American author of science fiction books and film screenplays (1942 - 2008)
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