Absence Quotes - Page 4

• Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Love, Long

  20 Copy quote

• The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

  Edward Thomas

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Edward Thomas (2012). “Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.150, Other Press, LLC

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Cat

  799 Copy quote

• The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of the truth.

  Anuj

  Powerful, Love Is, Stronger

  7 Copy quote

• How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Years, Long, Three

  Eugénie de GUÉRIN, François Guillaume Stanislas TRÉBUTIEN (1866). “Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]”, p.8

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

  Erwin McManus

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2004). “The Uprising Experience: A Personal Guide for a Revolution of the Soul, Promise Keepers Edition”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

  Thomas Overbury

  Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Absent Friends, Absence Love

  Thomas Overbury (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, now first collected: Edited with notes, and a biograph. account of the author by E. F. Rimbault”, p.190

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• What shall I do with all the days and hours
  That must be counted ere I see thy face?
  How shall I charm the interval that lowers
  Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

  Fanny Kemble

  I Miss You, Missing You, Letting Go

  Fanny Kemble (1844). “Poems”, p.129

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

  Kai Knudsen

  Love, I Miss You, Boyfriend

  110 Copy quote

• I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.

  Knut Hamsun

  Pain, Taken, Eye

  Knut Hamsun (1999). “Hunger”, p.39, Canongate Books

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen,
  What old December's bareness everywhere!

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Winter, December

  William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 97: How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Time, Shapes, Assuming

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Believe, Animal

  Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Ingredients, Family Life

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

  Hal Borland

  Family, Home, House

  20 Copy quote

• Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
  forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
  the absence of profound thankfulness.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Prayer, Butterfly, Profound

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.33, Conari Press

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  Martin Rees

  Science, Vastness, Ontology

  Quoted in Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, rev. ed., ed. B. M. Oliver and J. Billingham (1973). An earlier version by A. R. Burn appeared in a book review by Burn in The Classical Review, June 1969: "absence of evidence is not identical with evidence of absence."

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Samuel Butler

  Thinking, Unthinkable

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 Byron

  Heart, Roving, Made

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.67, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Death Of The Heart”, p.163, Random House

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Weather, Two, Foxes

  Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Thomas Rees (2010). “Travels to the Source of the Missouri River: And Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean 1804, 1805, and 1806”, p.213, Cambridge University Press

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Peace must be more than the absence of war.

  Helmut Kohl

  War

  "With the stroke of a pen, peace comes to Bosnia". www.cnn.com. December 14, 1995.

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hero, Meaning Of Life, Absurdity

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

  Hannah More

  Love, Fire, Water

  31 Copy quote