Absence - Quotes
Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.
I do not fear death. I fear suffering. And I fear old age, though less so now that I am witnessing the tranquil and pleasant old age of my father. I am afraid of frailty, and of the absence of love. But death does not alarm me. It did not scare me when I was young, and I thought at the time that this was because it was such a remote prospect. But now, at sixty, the fear has yet to arrive. I love life, but life is also struggle, suffering, pain. I think of death as akin to a well-earned rest.
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.
Happiness is not the absence of problems; it`s the ability to deal with them.
You never really stop missing someone - you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
There is no positive source of evil, or even evil beings, but rather an absence of good in some beings.
Privacy is a wonderful thing. Like love, privacy is most manifest in its absence.
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
Darkness isn't the opposite of light, it is simply its absence.