Absent Quotes

320 quotes by 284 authors

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic… — Juan Williams
To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his… — Neil Gaiman
Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the… — John Hodgman
How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of… — Stephen King
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in… — Herman Melville
To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent. — Stephen Covey
People with yuan fen are destined to like one another; Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart. But should yuan fen be absent between… — Adeline Yen Mah
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those… — Albert Camus
Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur. — Stephen Hawking
Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent. — Diane Setterfield
I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it… — Deb Caletti
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent. — H P Lovecraft
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we… — Epicurus
Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only… — Jodi Picoult
Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity) — Dave Eggers
and yet when i finally drifted of in that barely conscious state where logic was absent and dreams encroached i could almost hear bone's voice.… — Jeaniene Frost
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and… — Jane Austen
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our… — Gretchen Rubin
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats… — William Shakespeare

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