Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
ZhuangziAbsence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William CowperAbsence - that common cure of love.
Lord ByronThere is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel ButlerAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Robert Louis StevensonReal magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Wayne DyerFreedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand RussellAbsence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore RooseveltGod is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Jean-Paul SartreWhite... is not a mere absence of colour, it is a shining and affirmative thing as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours, but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Blaise PascalAbsence of proof is not proof of absence.
William CowperAbsence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William CowperLife has become the ideology of its own absence.
Theodor W. AdornoAbsence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William ShakespeareMan is a credulous animal and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand RussellNever find fault with the absent.
Alexander PopeThe people who are absent are the ideal, those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBe generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheKnowledge is recognition of something absent, it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George SantayanaIn the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint AugustineWhatever work we do, whatever sacrifices we perform, they are not of much use in the absence of love.
Sai BabaYou'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Earl NightingaleAbsence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas FullerFreedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
Paulo CoelhoThe meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl MarxLet me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
OvidThough the dungeon, the scourge and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LucretiusThe enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Orson WellesThe absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin FranklinTruth has to persist unaffected in the past, present and future. That, which is absent in two states, how can it be true?
Sai BabaYour progress is reflected back as Grace, your decline is reflected back as its absence. The mirror just reflects. It has no partiality or prejudice.
Sai BabaTotal absence of humor renders life impossible.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteI dote on his very absence.
William ShakespeareGrace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William HazlittIn the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteIn the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
Barack Obama