Absence Quotes - Page 3

• Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, What Matters, Matter

  1981 Midnight's Children,'Alpha and Omega', bk.2.

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

  Derek Bailey

  Thinking, Play, Solo

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• Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Men, Heritage

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• Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

  William Cowper

  Wisdom, Relaxation, Mind

  William Cowper, James Montgomery (1825). “Poems of William Cowper ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery ... Second edition”, p.240

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• 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.

  Antonin Artaud

  Order, Drug, Feels

  "Appeal to Youth: Intoxication-Disintoxication (1934)". "Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings". Book by Antonin Artaud, 1976.

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• The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

  Wole Soyinka

  Inspirational, Criticism, Threat

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Absent, Ideals

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• Parting is such sweet sorrow

  William Shakespeare

  Sad Love, Sweet, Sorrow

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

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• Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Opportunity, Wells, Absent

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• There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

  Philip James Bailey

  Intellectual, Excellence, Quality

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• Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Depressing, Landmarks

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.947, eBookIt.com

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• But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

  Marcel Carne

  Mother, Stills, Felt

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• 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

  Purpose, Use, May

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

  Ezra Cornell

  Children, Mind, Dear God

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Literature

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• In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Home, House, Matter

  "Gigi". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1945.

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

  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

  Bills, Lord, Provision

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 2-3, Address to the Electors of the City of London (April 6, 1859), 1922.

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• Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

  Irving Babbitt

  Military, Men, Kind Man

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• The absence of war is not peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  War

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• While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

  Ray Kroc

  Important, Guarantees, Advantage

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Woman absent is woman dead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Absent

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• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

  Karl Radek

  Country, Party, Labour Movement

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• The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Consolation, Ultimate, I Can

  Shelagh Delaney (1959). “A Taste of Honey: A Play”, p.17, Grove Press

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• In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

  Tucker Carlson

  Age, Superstitions, Middle

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• We have really no absent friends.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Absent Friends, Absent

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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