Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas Fuller
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.
Barton Gellman
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Thomas Hardy
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt
If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.
Bob Kane
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry A. Kissinger
Peace must be more than the absence of war.
Helmut Kohl
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
Jacques Lacan