Absence Quotes

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela

Courage, Fear, Brave

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Wind, Fans

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Courage, Fear, Resistance

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare

Love, Self, Deadly

I dote on his very absence.
William Shakespeare

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan

Peace, Means, Ability

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Alice Koller

Alone, Others, Rather

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

Real, Others, Means

Absence - that common cure of love.
Lord Byron

Love, Common, Cure

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Death, Same, Suffering

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Anais Nin

Father, Human, Child

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl Marx

Peace, Socialism, Meaning

In 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

Down, Against, Might

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Peace, War, Mind

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley

Complete, Talents, Virtues

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

Justice, Robbery, Organized

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine

Whole, Religious, Modern

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza

Peace, War, Mind

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

Freedom, May, Obstacles

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas Fuller

Love, Presence, Sharpens

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Orson Welles

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Ambrose Bierce

Friends, Absent, Blots

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand Russell

Good, Bad, Belief

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Zhuangzi

Happiness, Striving

White... 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. Chesterton

God, Black, Said

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson

Love, Friendship, Long

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
Wole Soyinka

Freedom, Greatest, Criticism

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry A. Kissinger

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler

Nothing, Thought, Unless

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