Absence Quotes - Page 35

• Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.

  Hannah Arendt

  Powerful, Thinking, Affair

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Home, Men, Proof

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story”, p.272, e-artnow

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• An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

  Laurence Sterne

  Inward, Influence, Sincerity

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c. With a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.730

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• I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.

  Carrie Fisher

  Thinking, Long, Childhood

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• Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

  Janet Frame

  Death, Accomplishment, May

  Janet Frame (1998). “The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Fighting, Fire

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.

  Jane Jacobs

  Development, Poverty, Causes

  Jane Jacobs (1969). “The Economy of Cities”

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• I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found that sitting down, however reluctantly, with the pen in my hand, I have never worked for one quarter of an hour without finding myself in full train.

  Harriet Martineau

  Inspiration, Hands, Sitting Down

  Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.156, Broadview Press

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• The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

  Alice Miller

  Depression, Pain, Opposites

  Alice Miller (1981). “The drama of the gifted child”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

  James Martineau

  Memories, Grief, Delight

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• Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Believe, Soul, Solitude

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• No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

  Myrtle Reed

  Men, Sea, Forever

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

  Danny Silk

  Chaos, Conflict, Authority

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• Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Destiny, Errors, Facts

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.126

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• If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.

  Ronald Fisher

  Groups, Statistics, Causes

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• If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.

  William Benton Clulow

  Advice, Solitude, Benefits

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.141

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• Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief in that god is unreasonable. That's the only proposition that any atheist of any kind has to demonstrate in order to win the argument. Because anything beyond that... is just having fun.

  Scott Clifton

  Atheist, Fun, Winning

  "God, Atheism and Evidence: A Response to Veritas48". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. January 11, 2010.

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• Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.

  Hermann Adler

  Source, Strife, Jew

  "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs" by Joseph H. Hertz, p. 933, (One-volume edition), 1937.

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• Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Hero, Soul, Villain

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• After long absence, of return / To my dear home - Oh, happiness! / To lie in blissful consciousness / Of all around: The picture there - / The books - the flower-glass filled with care / By a kind hand - And then to know, / 'Twas but to rise, and meet below / Such a heart's welcome!

  Caroline Anne Southey

  Lying, Flower, Book

  Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.267

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• Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism is a conscious choice and subsistence is the absence of choice. We had to use everything to survive. And now that we've been assimilated and colonized and we have luxuries and excesses, we're just as wasteful as other people.

  Sherman Alexie

  Two, Luxury, People

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Hope, Taken, Hands

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• The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Eye, Views, Stones

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.316, tredition

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• Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Grief, Loss, Men

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.228, tredition

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• ... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.

  Shirley Boone

  Boundaries, Ability

  Shirley Boone (1972). “ONE WOMAN'S LIBERATION”

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