The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.
Absence of occupation is not rest.
Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
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.
To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.
I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.
Being oppressed means the absence of choices
Never find fault with the absent.
Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.
I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
The absence of disease is not health.
The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.
We have really no absent friends.
The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.
The condition of the United States positively announces the lack of substance, of unifying principle from the start: that consensus is a lie, and that the absence of consensus is a necessary condition for, not the dissolution of the political entity, and its reconstruction according to both viral and virtual principles, which, are, in practice, user-generated.
Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.