Absence Quotes

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn’t freedom. It’s not control that’s lacking when one feels ‘free’, but the objectionable control of force.

liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion

I have decorated your absence with every flower you hate. I end up hating em all.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

Your absence in my heart has taught me how to find my own way finally.

When your life is working there will be an absence of drama.

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.