Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation.
If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.
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.
Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the ordered, bourgeois world of the 'last man' he who will pay any price in tedium for comfort and the absence of tension.
Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.
The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.
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.
Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.
Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.
Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
Wellness is not the absence of pain. . . . . But the absence of limitation
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
The absence of him is everywhere I look.
The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.