#absence

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

#death #only #same #suffering

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

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#doubt #due #frequently #inefficient #intemperance

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it. ↗

— Peter Singer

#argument #because #believe #believing #despite

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#bright #delicate #good #influence #keep

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#agile #animal #boot #europe #general

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#absence #consist #does #his #life

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in. ↗

— Julie Christie

#exists #happiness #i #i think #interesting

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#am #feebleness #feeling #horrified #i

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#any #common #desirable #goods #human

Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..." He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow. "You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich. "You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?" "Even now," the woman says firmly. ↗

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

#asking #fear #forgiveness #guilt #help