Definition of Absence

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Absence

A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.

Want; destitution; withdrawal.

Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind.

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Absence Quotations

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Wayne Dyer

Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare

I dote on his very absence.
William Shakespeare

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.
Nelson Mandela

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Anais Nin

Absence Translations

absence in Dutch is afwezigheid, absentie, mangel
absence in German is Abwesenheit {f}, Abwesenheit {f}, Fehlen {n}
absence in Italian is mancare, assenza
absence in Spanish is ausencia, falta

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