Quotes
Quotes about Absence
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.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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. -Aaron Antonovsky.
When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest upon;What would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwell?Absence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! - Paradise Lost.
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my Nath, doth breeds in me the more continuall remembrance of him.
Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life. -John Paul Richter.
Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne his face Biforn the fold, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
