95 Absence Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing absence quotes and sayings.
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Short Absence Quotes and Sayings
“The surest test of discipline is its absence.” —Clara Barton
“Absence casts the longest shadow.” —Marty Rubin
“Never find fault with the absent.” —Unknown
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Woman absent is woman dead.” —Ambrose Bierce
“The absent shall not be made heir.” —Latin proverb
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” —Mark Twain
“Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.” —Colley Cibber
“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.” —Henry A. Kissinger
“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?” —Saint Augustine
“There is a hole in the heart called “absence”. You live in it my dear.” —Malak El Halabi
“But the absence of tears wasn’t the same as an absence of feeling.” —Lisa Kleypas
“The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.” —Charles Reade
“Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.” —Elizabeth Bowen
“Give the gift of your absence to those who do not appreciate your presence.” —Unknown
“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.” —Tacitus
“The absence of justice anywhere is the presence of injustice everywhere.” —Sunday Adelaja
“A daughter needs her father more than anything else in the world.” —Unknown
“Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.” —William Cowper
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” —Carl Sagan
“Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” —Aisha Tyler
“A short absence is the safest.” —Ovid
“Respect means: even in your absence people speak good of your person.” —Constance Friday
“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.” —Havelock Ellis
“And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.” —Ally Condie
“Absence — that common cure of love.” —Miguel de Cervantes
“Life has become the ideology of its own absence.” —Theodor W. Adorno
“Don’t struggle to make your presence noticed. Just make your absence felt.” —Tinku Razoria
“The absence of happiness doesn’t mean unhappiness.” —Praveen Sighal
“There is no absence that cannot be replaced.” —René Char
“When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.” —Thomas à Kempis
“You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.” —Earl Nightingale
“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.” —Tacitus
“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.” —Wole Soyinka
“Love can be simply the absence of tension.” —Will Advise
“The strongest presence is so often an absence.” —Steve Rasnic Tem
“Absent in body, but present in spirit.” —Apostle Paul
“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” —Karl Marx
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death.” —William Cowper
“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.” —Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“A positive mindset alone in the absence of hard work will get you nowhere.” —Ken Poirot
“Your absence around me reminds me of your presence inside me.” —Unknown
“In the hope to meet shortly again, and make our absence sweet.” —Ben Jonson
Absence Quotes and Sayings
“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.” —William Shakespeare
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” —Ronald Reagan
“Sometimes it’s better to move on than to hold on to a person who doesn’t understand you. Sometimes your absence will teach what your presence cannot.” —Unknown
“There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.” —Samuel Butler
“Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.” —Jodi Picoult
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Women fall in love in a man’s presence, men tend to realize they are in love in a woman’s absence.” —Unknown
“Some kids are able to become independent without the presence of their father.” —Unknown
“One of the best feelings in the world is knowing that your presence and absence both mean something to someone.” —Unknown
“Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.” —William Hazlitt
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.” —Jorge Luis Borges
“I still smell your absence on my skin. It smells of insomnia and rusted key locks.” —Malak El Halabi
“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.” —George Fetherling
“Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman’s greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn’t want her.” —Helen Rowland
“All days are nights to see till I see thee, and nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.” —William Shakespeare
“Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.” —Jean Paul Richter
“Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler.” —Lord Byron
“The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.” —Coco J. Ginger
“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
“If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.” —Unknown
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.” —Charles M. Schulz
“Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I’ve tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.” —Frederick William Thomas
“Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.” —Charles Lamb
“Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.” —Aleister Crowley
“The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.” —Michael Bassey Johnson
“The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of truth.” —Anuj Somany
“Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.” —Umberto Eco
“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.” —François de La Rochefoucauld
“Always make your absence felt, in such a way that somebody misses you, but let not your absence be so long that somebody starts learning to live without you.” —Unknown
“Days of absence, sad and dreary, clothed in sorrow’s dark array. Days of absence, I am weary; she, I love, is far away.” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The people who are absent are the ideal, those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Funny Absence Quotes and Sayings
“Nothing brighten up a room like you absence.” —Unknown
“I felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.” —James Dashner
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.Yeah fonder of the absence.” —Unknown
“Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.” —Jodi Picoult
“If someone doesn’t appreciate your presence, make them appreciate your absence.” —Unknown
“I always arrive late at the office.but I makeup for it leaving early.” —Unknown
“Sometimes I need what only you can provide! your absence.” —Unknown
“Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Top Ten Absence Quotes and Sayings
Here you will find top ten absence quotes and sayings selected by our team.
- “The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.” —Havelock Ellis
- “If someone doesn’t appreciate your presence, make them appreciate your absence.” —Unknown
- “There is a hole in the heart called “absence”. You live in it my dear.” —Malak El Halabi
- “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” —Mark Twain
- “Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.” —Jorge Luis Borges
- “Sometimes it’s better to move on than to hold on to a person who doesn’t understand you. Sometimes your absence will teach what your presence cannot.” —Unknown
- “Women fall in love in a man’s presence, men tend to realize they are in love in a woman’s absence.” —Unknown
- “In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.” —Aleister Crowley
- “Give the gift of your absence to those who do not appreciate your presence .” —Unknown
- “Don’t struggle to make your presence noticed. Just make your absence felt.” —Tinku Razoria
