Absence Quotes - Page 8

• Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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• Absent in body, but present in spirit.

  Paul the Apostle

  Body, Spirit, Absent

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• Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

  Helen Keller

  Cheating, Evil, Optimism

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  True Friend, Giving, Advice

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• The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

  Sallust

  Light, Evil, Darkness

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• Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Feelings, Meetings, Delicious

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.37

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• Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Passion, Blow

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• We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Moving, Thinking

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• The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

  Havelock Ellis

  Beauty, Beautiful, Design

  Havelock Ellis (1915). “Impressions and comments”

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• Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Success, Pain

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.101

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• The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Historical, Politics

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• The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Decision, Mind, Alternatives

  "Man Of The Year: They Are Fated to Succeed". content.time.com. January 02, 1978.

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• Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Moving, Despair

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

  Tacitus

  Belief, Absent Mindedness, Greater Things

  "Historiae (Histories)". Book by Tacitus, circa 104-109 AD.

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• Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Relationship, Distance

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4552, e-artnow

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• In the hope to meet
  Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.706

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• We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

  John Robert Seeley

  Mind, Half, World

  John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Love, Life, Sad

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

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Ironic, Decorum, Tact

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• Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Suffering, Lovers

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.258

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• How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

  John Donne

  Love Is, Long, Great Love

  John Donne (2013). “Love poems”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• I believe absence is a great element of charm.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Elements, Charm

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• One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.

  Philip Sington

  Writing, Light, White

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• You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.

  Rumi

  Grief, Taken, Sadness

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• How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Tree, Leader

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