Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
Theodor Adorno
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
Derek Bailey
The surest test of discipline is its absence.
Clara Barton
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Ambrose Bierce
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
Tucker Carlson
But I still always felt the absence of a mother.
Marcel Carne
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
Willa Cather