absence Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about absence.
“When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”
- Brendan Behan
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”
- Zhuangzi
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
- Mark Twain
“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
- Wole Soyinka
“God is absence. God is the solitude of man.”
- Jean-Paul Sartre
“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.”
- Rousseau, Jean J.
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
- Twain, Mark
“Being oppressed means the absence of choices.”
- Hooks, Bell
“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.”
- Bertrand Russell