My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.
Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.
Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.
I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life. Indeed if I were required to make a sharp division in the very nature of people, I would be tempted to make it there: readers and nonreaders of books. . . It is astonishing how the presence or absence of this habit so consistently characterizes an individual in other respects; it is as though it were a kind of barometer of temperament, of personality, even of character. Aside from that, for me it constituted something like sanity insurance.
During their separation, something had happened to Annabeth's feelings. They'd grown painfully intense-like she'd been forced to withdraw from a life-saving medication. Now she wasn't sure which was more excruciating-living with that horrible absence, or being with him again.
Friends, though absent, are still present.
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc. , as if they possessed self-sufficient being.
It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.
Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.
SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?. . . it isn't only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?
When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.
Peace must be more than the absence of war.
The concern now is whether policymakers even understand the meaning of evidence. Whether there is any truth to this descriptor of "fact-free era. " Whether policy is going to be made more and more in the absence of scientific input.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.
The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.
Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.