Absence Quotes - Page 6

• Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Power, Self, Helping

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• Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.

  Kabir

  Believe, Thirsty

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Change, Death

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• If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

  Bob Kane

  Bills, Fingers, Ifs

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• L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Fire, Wind

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• Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Heart, Winter, Two

  1924 Chills and Fever,'Winter Remembered'.

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• The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.

  Adyashanti

  Life, Dream, Spiritual

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• When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Sight, Long

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• Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

  Arthur Miller

  Choices, Needs, Paradise

  Arthur Miller (2016). “Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.176, Penguin

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• Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

  Ambrose Bierce

  People, Absent Friends, Absence Love

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• The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Long Distance Relationship, Heart, Thinking

  Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 2, ch. 2

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• The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Inspirational, Trials, Incessant

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• Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

  Pope Paul VI

  Failure, Men, Want

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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• Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Missing You, Distance, World Suffering

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• Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

  Bertrand Russell

  Freedom, Fear, Desire

  Bertrand Russell (1996). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: A Fresh Look at Empiricism 1927-42”

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• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wisdom, Peace, War

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

  Orson Welles

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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• Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Sarcastic, Wisdom

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

  James M. Barrie

  Heart, Forgetful, Grows

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• Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

  John Dryden

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.196

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• Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.

  Robert Buettner

  Atheist, Proof, Mathematical Proof

  Robert Buettner (2005). “Orphan's Destiny”

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• Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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