“The trial would proceed in the absence of the defendant because the defendant would refuse to cooperate. They might as well sentence them without a trial.”
Abdel Haq Alani
“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.”
William Shakespeare
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
Ambrose Redmoon
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”
Mark Twain
“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.”
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.”
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin