Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

~ Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller Presence Absence Sharpens

Absence - that common cure of love.

~ Lord Byron

Lord Byron Absence Cure Common

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Suffering Same Absence

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 Behan

Brendan Behan Me Said Absence

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

~ Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi Striving Absence

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

~ Václav Havel

Václav Havel Words Meaning Absence

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

~ Rollo May

Rollo May Despair Ahead Absence

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

~ Havelock Ellis

Havelock Ellis Absence Flaw Itself

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

~ Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine Justice Organized Absence

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

~ Karl Marx

Karl Marx Meaning Socialism Absence

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

~ Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell Obstacles May Absence

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

~ Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Criticism Greatest Absence