Absence

Success is not the absence of failure, it's the persistence through failure.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Judicious absence is a weapon.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.

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

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

Absence - that common cure of love.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

The absence of diverse voices leads to policies and programs that adversely impact African-Americans.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

Our hours in love have wings, in absence, crutches.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of its code, with the amount of the penalty set in proportion to the amount of pollutant released by a given defendant, and no penalties imposed in the absence of any pollutant released.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

I dote on his very absence.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.