Absence Quotes

Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.

In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

Your absence is the loudest presence I have ever known.

In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.

The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.

To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

Why do I paint a happy face every single holiday when they are a stinging reminder of what and who is absent.

The absence of him is everywhere I look.

I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.