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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

— Thomas Fuller

Absence - that common cure of love.

— Lord Byron

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

— Rollo May

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

— Bertrand Russell

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

— Zhuangzi

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

— Saint Augustine

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

— Helmut Kohl