Absence quotes

Explore poignant quotes about absence, reflecting the longing, emptiness, and nostalgia that accompanies separations and the void left behind. Find solace in words that capture the essence of missing someone dearly.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

- John Robert Seeley

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

- Wayne Dyer

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.

- Edward Everett

Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.

- Marguerite Gardiner

I dote on his very absence.

- William Shakespeare

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

- Henry B. Adams

In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

- Karl Radek

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

- William Cowper

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

- Peter Cook

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

- Nick Rahall

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

- Harold Pinter

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

- Wole Soyinka

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

- Alan Greenspan

In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

- Patrick J. Kennedy

The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.

- Ali A. Saleh

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

- Ezra Cornell

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

- King Hussein I

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

- Meriwether Lewis

I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.

- George Combe

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

- Derek Bailey

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

- Bob Kane

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

The system adopted in the Latin American instrument proves that, although no state can obligate another to join such a zone, neither can one prevent others wishing to do so from adhering to a regime of total absence of nuclear weapons within their own territories.

- Alfonso G. Robles

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

- Jean Henri Fabre

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

- William Cowper

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

- Bertrand Russell

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

- Saint Augustine

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette