Absence Quotes

Absence Quotes & Sayings

These absence quotes and absence sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. - Antonin Artaud


Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld


The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. - Orson Welles


Peace is not the absence of struggle, it is the absence of 'uncertainty.' - Anthony Bloom


Total absence of humour renders life impossible. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette


Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. - Comte De Bussy-Rabutin


Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? - Arthur Miller


The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. - Karl Marx


Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. - Bryan Appleyard