Absent Quotes · Page 6

When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.

— Rajneesh

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

— Jaron Lanier

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

— Benedetto Croce

Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!

— Anonymous

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

— H. P. Lovecraft

When you seek a connection to God, you suffer. God is not absent.

— Mark Whitwell

“Tell me what has happened in this week that you've been absent from my window.”

— Anne Mallory

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

— Anonymous

Believers are increasingly aware that, unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in…

— Pope Benedict XVI

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends…

— Anneli Rufus

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in…

— John Locke

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

— Cyril Connolly

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new…

— Howard Zinn

Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the…

— David Plouffe

To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis…

— Denis de Rougemont

Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and…

— Frank Pittman

We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The do nothing God...He's not tucked away in some far corner of…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a…

— Nathalia Crane

living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being…

— George Sand

One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty…

— David Foster Wallace

I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my…

— Carolyn Custis James

The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be…

— Martin Heidegger

CREATIVITY is when you are not, because creativity is the fragrance of the creator. It is the presence of God in you.…

— Rajneesh

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image,…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given…

— Anonymous

Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being…

— Desmond Tutu

How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that,…

— Swami Vivekananda

This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.

— Anonymous

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

— Tacitus

Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

— Frederick William Robertson

“I dreamed of dying, long before my dreams have died.”

— Anthony Liccione

“Absent one, how I miss you on this shore that conjures you and fades if you're away”

— Eugenio Montale

I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.

— Maria V. Snyder

“Il y a toujours quelque chose d’absent qui me tourmente.”

— Camille Claudel

“He [my father] wasn't as bad towards me as he was to mum. Just absent.”

— John Larkin