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.
~By Antonin Artaud ~
In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.
~By Edward Burnett Tylor ~
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
~By Alice Koller ~
To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.
~By Milton R. Sapirstein ~
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
~By John Robert Seeley ~
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
~By Freya Stark ~
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
~By Jacques Lacan ~
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.
~By Edward Everett ~
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.
~By George Combe ~
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
~By George Byron ~
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
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.
~By Karl Radek ~
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
~By Francis Wright ~
For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.
~By Ben Nelson ~
The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.
~By King Hussein I ~
I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
~By Peter Cook ~
Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
~By Willa Cather ~
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
~By Brendan Behan ~
I dote on his very absence.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.
~By Nancy Travis ~
Judicious absence is a weapon.
~By Charles Reade ~
And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
~By Patti Davis ~
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
~By Jose Ortega Y Gasset ~
Absence - that common cure of love.
~By Lord Byron ~
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.
~By Nick Rahall ~
The system adopted in the Latin American instrument proves that, although no state can obligate another to join such a zone, neither can one prevent others wishing to do so from adhering to a regime of total absence of nuclear weapons within their own territories.
~By Alfonso G. Robles ~
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
~By Roger de Rabutin ~
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
~By Julie Christie ~
I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
~By Bram Fischer ~
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
~By Elizabeth Ashley ~
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.
~By Ovid ~
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.
~By Michael Burgess ~
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
~By Orson Welles ~
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
The surest test of discipline is its absence.
~By Clara Barton ~
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
~By Elijah Wood ~
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
~By William Hazlitt ~
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
~By Arthur Miller ~
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
~By Ray Kroc ~
To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
~By Barack Obama ~
It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
~By Gerald Jampolsky ~
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
~By Mary Astell ~
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
~By Leo Rosten ~
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
~By Saint Augustine ~
In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
~By William Cowper ~
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
~By George Saintsbury ~
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
~By Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
~By Derek Bailey ~
The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
~By John Millington Synge ~
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
~By Tammy Bruce ~
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.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
~By Thomas Haynes Bayly ~
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
~By Zhuangzi ~
If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.
~By Bob Kane ~
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.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
~By Karl Marx ~
It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.
~By Virgil Goode ~
The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.
~By Ali A. Saleh ~
There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
~By Harold Pinter ~
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
~By Mark Twain ~
We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
~By Rafik Hariri ~
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