Absence Quotes

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

"Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear."

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

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

"If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation."

"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."

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

"When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension."

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most"

"When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices."

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."

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

"In the absence of dogs and hoses there is no immediate, obvious enemy before us, so it's harder to mobilize a sense of outrage, ... Rosa Parks did not just sit down on her own initiative. She was part of a movement."

"Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant / Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air / Of absence withers what was once so fair?"

"The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence"

"Absence -- that common cure of love."

"When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt"

"Always obey your parents - when they are present."

"One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers."