Quotes
Quotes about Absence
I dote on his very absence.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder:
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
'T is said that absence conquers love;
But oh believe it not!
I've tried, alas! its power to prove,
But thou art not forgot.
'T is said that absence conquers love;
But oh believe it not!
I 've tried, alas! its power to prove,
But thou art not forgot.
Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--
Days of absence, I am weary:
She I love is far away.
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 misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
It is difficult to legislate morality in the absence of moral legislators.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.]
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more.
