Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
Neal A. Maxwell
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine
In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across... →
Samantha Power
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Roger de Rabutin
Judicious absence is a weapon.
Charles Reade
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has... →
Salman Rushdie
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre