Absence Quotes

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

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

Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

The absent are always in the wrong

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions

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

Absence is the enemy of love

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair

When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence
Brendan Behan

A short absence is safest

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Absence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry B. Adams

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
Neal A. Maxwell

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
Propertius

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Sir Matthew Hale

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

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else
Patti Davis







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