The best thing about science is that hard empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it or rational argument that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

I was court-martial in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

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

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

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