Quotes about Absence
Faith is one of the forces by which men live the total absence of it means collapse.
- William James
The absence of Jesus is the mode of his presence.
- James Carroll
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
- Thomas a Kempis
To say that evil is a privation is not the same as saying that it is a mere absence or negation of good. The power of sight is found neither in a blind man nor in a rock. But it is a privation for the blind man, whereas it is a mere absence in the rock.
- Norman Geisler
if you instantly improve the hygiene factors of your job, you're not going to suddenly love it. At best, you just won't hate it anymore. The opposite of job dissatisfaction isn't job satisfaction, but rather an absence of job dissatisfaction.
- Clayton M. Christensen
He had returned when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was endangered by his absence. He had come back, to save a citizen's life, and to bear his testimony, at whatever personal hazard, to the truth.
- Charles Dickens
I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!
- Charles Dickens
Mrs. Pocket was at home, and was in a little difficulty, on account of the baby's having been accommodated with a needle case to keep him quiet during the unaccountable absence (with a relative in the Foot Guards) of Millers. And more needles were missing than it could be regarded as quite wholesome for a patient of such tender years either to apply externally or to take as a tonic.
- Charles Dickens
Go in peace. Mizpah." "Mizpah? I know what that means." "Tell me, son," he said, biting on his lower lip. "The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
- Og Mandino
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
- Cormac McCarthy
Yeah. He aint here to say though, is he? I dont know. Someways I think he'll always have a say.
- Cormac McCarthy
Your only real safety would be in disappearing.
- Cormac McCarthy