Awake, then die in the arms of a modified lover sleep, then dream in the absence of a tangible lover envision, then sing in the thralls of a hungry lover

— A.P. Sweet

Beauty is dad kissing mom's hand when it cramps. Beauty is seeing a Persian woman dance. Ugly is not the absence of beauty. Uglyis the inability to identify it. The inability to be surprised by it. It is the persistent reluctance to be made a child by it. Beauty is simply the manifestation of love.

— Kamand Kojouri

Beauty is not a warrant for wellbeing and so does happiness not hinge on social success, but is only tangible via intricate, meandering discovery journeys in the mind. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")

— Erik Pevernagie

Because freedom and liberty and equality are as vital as breath, we only notice their absence when we are left gasping when the colors of diversity and individual liberty are drained from the world around us.

— Christina Engela

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

— Audrey Niffenegger

But thou art with us, with us in the past, The present, with us in the times to come. There is no grief, no sorrow, no despair, No languor, no dejection, no dismay, No absence scarcely can there be, for those Who love as we do. Speed the well!

— William Wordsworth

Courage is not the absence of Fear, but the ability to act in spite of fear!

— Harrish Sairaman

Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is the Universe. To be detached, is to realize that the fullness of all there is, is too much to react to with just one emotion, one thought, or any bias. To be detached, is to acknowledge all, without owning any of it. To be detached, is to summon forth the whole entirety of understanding, to the fragment that is the void.

— Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of sense

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Do you eat all the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?

— Maggie Stiefvater