absence

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Of course I__l hurt you. Of course you__l hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

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

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

The absent are always wrong.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Absent in body but present in spirit.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Achilles absent was Achilles still.

Sometimes when one person is missing the whole world seems depopulated.

The absence of wish, to analysis yourself, the surrounding world, and what you are doing. Is the logical, and philosophical proof, of zombie mind, and consciousness.