Pastoral Resources

Absence - that common cure of love.

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

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

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

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

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.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

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.

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

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.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

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