There are some people who are always in the conversation when they are not there.
– Evan Esar
The word young refers not just to age but also to the absence of awareness.
– Malidone Some
The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
– Robert Bly
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
– Arthur Erickson
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness.
– Steven Mason
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
– Mark Twain
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
– Nelson Mandela
Bravery has never been about the absence of fear, it is going forward and facing your fear even though you are scared half to death and every fiber of your being is screaming at you to run away and hide.
– Joe Nickaloff
The absence of bad news has replaced it and we have all lowered our standards to accept no bad news as the new good news.
– Joe Nickaloff
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
– Roger de Rabutin de Bussy
Don’t struggle to make your presence noticed. Just make your absence felt.
– Tinku Razoria
The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.
– Michael Bassey Johnson
Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
– Walter S Landor
The truth is that every sheet of blank paper by its very emptiness affirms that nothing is as beautiful as what does not exist.
– Paul Valery
Sometimes the experience of emptiness is linked no to negative negative things about the person but to the absence of positive things.
– Peter Cooper
A day away from some people is like a month in the country.
– Howard Dietz
Absence makes the hear grow fonder, but presents brings better results.
– Evan Esar
When a man doesn’t go straight home, his wife’s remarks do.
– Evan Esar
Habits are hard to change; many a man whose wife is away hates to go home just the same.
– Evan Esar
To some people freedom of religion merely means a choice of churches to stay away from.
– Evan Esar
There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps.
– Helen Macdonald
We think we have discovered a grotto that is stored with bewildering treasure; we come to the light of day, and the gems we have brought are false, mere pieces of glass, and yet does the treasure shine on, unceasingly, in the darkness.