| "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 |
| "I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence." »Brendan Francis Behan |
| "Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer." »Alexander Pope |
| "Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh leave the light of Hope behind." »Thomas Campbell |
| "If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole." »Robert Joseph Bob Dole |
| "And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave---until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world." »John Green |
| "You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time" »Bob Moawad |
| "absence of proof is not proof of absence." »Michael Crichton |
| "I dote on his very absence." »William Shakespeare |
| "The absence of war is not peace." »Harry S Truman |
| "Health is not simply the absence of sickness." »Hannah Green |
| "absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away." »James Thomson |
| "The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously." »Henry Kissinger |
| "What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain." »Cicero |
| "Our hours in love have wings in absence, crutches." »Colley Cibber |
| "absence makes the heart grow fonder." »Thomas Haynes Bayly |
| "Total absence of humor renders life impossible." »Colette |
| "Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life." »Jean Paul Richter |
| "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought." »Dorothy L. Sayers |
| "If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions." »Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| "Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better." »Unknown |
| "absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." »Comte DeBussy-Rabutin |
| "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones." »Bertrand Russell |
| "In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia." »Unknown |
| "If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless." »Henry Kissinger |
| "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." »Baruch Spinoza |
| "absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere" »William Shakespeare |
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