absence

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

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

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

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

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

In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

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