Quotes on Absence

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

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.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much...so, so much.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

In the hope to meet_x000D_ _x000D_ Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. The power that lay within both their souls had met, and, as it were, clasped hands. They accepted one another's sacrifice. Hers, mayhap, was the more complete of the two, because for her his absence would mean weary waiting, the dull heartache so terrible to bear.

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence, the erasure, of seeing the other. Of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other. And when that's removed, then politics_x000D_ can become genocidal.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.

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

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.