Quotes on Absence

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially in the presence of life itself. Among the biomarkers in Earth's atmosphere are ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol sprays, vapor from mineral solvents, escaped coolants from refrigerators and air conditioners, and smog from the burning of fossil fuels. No other way to read that list: sure signs of the absence of intelligence.

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence