Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

In the absence of justice what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Man is a credulous animal and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing as fierce as red as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously I had almost said so gaudily as when He paints in white.

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent more basic to human life human beings what we feel about each other what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

Friendship like love is destroyed by long absence though it may be increased by short intermissions.

So far as discipline is concerned freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence shortages of food water and educational opportunities discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

In the absence of the gold standard there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

The universal human laws - need love for the beloved fear hunger periodic exaltation the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant predictable reliable universal and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion not comparison and measurement.

The best thing about science is that hard empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it or rational argument that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

I was court-martial in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence so I said they could shoot me in my 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.

I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair.