Achilles absent was Achilles still.

— Homer

A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!

— Israelmore Ayivor

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

— Nuno Roque

A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the guessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

— Hilary Mantel

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

— Ally Condie

Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

A positive mindset alone in the absence of hard work will get you nowhere.

— Ken Poirot

A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.

— Israelmore Ayivor

As light splinters into darkness, new thoughts may take over in the mind and allow upbeat views to gain power. Thus and so, thoughtfulness readily opens a blistering sky in the faltering shadow of unawareness. ("Absence of Desire")

— Erik Pevernagie

At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough