Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.
The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.
Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.
True friends don't say good-bye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.
Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.
If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.
Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [. . . ] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him on the job. What if he'd been injured in the line of duty and didn't come by as promised because he was incapacitated in some way? Maybe he hadn't called to apologize or to explain his absence because he physically couldn't. Right. And maybe she had checked her brain into her panties from the second she first laid eyes on the man.
The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.
A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. " If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld. . . I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always.
you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary otherwise; you have to examine such minerals in the absence of light to discover their beauty, you tell yourself.
The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.
Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.
But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.
In four ways. . . should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.
Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
