Absence Quotes - Page 6

• In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

  Joseph Addison

  Pain, Grief, And Love

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works”, p.428

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• Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Change, Death

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• L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Fire, Wind

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• Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, War, Rights

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.

  Kabir

  Believe, Thirsty

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.

  Adyashanti

  Life, Dream, Spiritual

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• If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

  Bob Kane

  Bills, Fingers, Ifs

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• When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Sight, Long

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• Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

  Arthur Miller

  Choices, Needs, Paradise

  Arthur Miller (2016). “Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.176, Penguin

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• Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

  Ambrose Bierce

  People, Absent Friends, Absence Love

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• The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Long Distance Relationship, Heart, Thinking

  Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 2, ch. 2

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• Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid

  Robert Liparulo

  Courage, Fear, Bravery

  Robert Liparulo (2009). “House of Dark Shadows”, p.148, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Inspirational, Trials, Incessant

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• Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Love, Women, Distance

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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• Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Missing You, Distance, World Suffering

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• Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

  Bertrand Russell

  Freedom, Fear, Desire

  Bertrand Russell (1996). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: A Fresh Look at Empiricism 1927-42”

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• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wisdom, Peace, War

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

  Orson Welles

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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• 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 Jampolsky

  Love, Valentine's Day, Measurement

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.41, Celestial Arts

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• Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

  Ovid

  Friendship, Men, Long

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• Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Sarcastic, Wisdom

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• Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

  John Dryden

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.196

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• Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• Days of absence, sad and dreary,
  Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -
  Days of absence, I am weary;
  She I love is far away.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  "Day of Absence". Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.

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