Absence Quotes

"To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home."
-Hal Borland

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

"Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great."
-Comte Debussy rabutin

"Absence makes the heart grow wander."
-Gerald Barzan

"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."
-William Cowper

"Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age."
-John Dryden

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
-Mark Twain

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
-Carl Sagan

"He that fears your presence will hate you absence."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
-Chuang Tzu

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. "
-English Proverb

"The absence of war is not peace."
-Harry S Truman

"In the absence of facts, the IAAF cannot and will not do anything."
-Istvan Gyulai

"They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace."
-Dorothy Thompson

"We'd like to talk to him and see what he knows. He's conspicuous by his absence."
-Mark Fulghum

"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."
-Havelock Ellis

"Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice."
-Harrison Ford

"What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain."
-Cicero

"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"
-St. Augustine

"The absence of goals is a false problem for him."
-Carlo Ancelotti

"Health is not simply the absence of sickness."
-Hannah Green

"Solitude: sweet absence of faces."
-Milan Kundera

"What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact."
-Don Williams, Jr.

"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."
-Michael Crichton

"Being oppressed means the absence of choices."
-Bell Hooks

"Each day of absence is a further day of suffering for these population."
-Hamadoun Toure

"A short absence is the safest."
-Ouida

"Judicious absence is a weapon."
-Charles Reade