Absent Quotes · Page 8

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

— Anonymous

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you are absent in my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success

— Uknown

Could I betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life?

— Stephenie Meyer

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

— Ambrose Bierce

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

— Publilius Syrus

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

— Heraclitus

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one…

— Storm Jameson

The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the…

— Donald Trump

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

— Saul Bellow

“Absence is a curious thing. When friends are absent, they seem to loom ever larger, till the lack of them is all…

— Libba Bray

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be…

— Abraham Lincoln

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with…

— Jeanette Winterson

I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me;…

— Frederic Chopin

... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it…

— Symeon the New Theologian

No man's condition is so base as his; None more accurs'd than he; for man esteems Him hateful, 'cause he seems not…

— Francis Quarles

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see…

— Lydia Ko

You've been absent to the world for the last 4years, but in my world I see you every single day. What or…

— Drusila T

1 day you love me and then 1 day you hate me. 1 day you wanna forget me and then turn around…

— Anonymous

and yet when i finally drifted of in that barely conscious state where logic was absent and dreams encroached i could almost…

— Jeaniene Frost

For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the…

— Christopher Isherwood

Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain.

— Chuck Berry

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

— Paulo Coelho

To be absent from the iPhone is to be present in the moment. Ignore it. Make some friends.

— Phil Callaway

“Hope is never absent. What’s absent is our faith in a reality that’s never absent.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans.

— Condoleezza Rice

Faith is...Believing God is present when everybody else is absent.

— Collins Hasty

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased

— John James Audubon

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

— Erin Morgenstern

It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.

— Anonymous

The loudest voice in the room, sometimes, is the absent voice of the silenced.

— Andy Dunn

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

— Stephen Hawking

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

— Julius Caesar

God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on…

— Anonymous

[Eva Braun] complained when [Adolf Hitler] was absent, she complained that she was deprived of his company.

— Gretl Braun