The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the eases and comfort he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventure. Everything is so well arranged.
Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.
The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.
The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.
Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.
As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.
Love is the absence of judgment.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.
The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.
This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.
It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence
What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.