Conspicuous by his absence.
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.
Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.
What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.
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.
In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.
It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.
An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence
How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.
The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence
The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's absence or presence that communicates to the many how you would regard and talk about them in their presence or absence.
Good health is not the absence of symptoms, it is the presence of peace.
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.