Absent Quotes

320 quotes by 284 authors

It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared — Cassandra Clare
They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They… — Howard Zinn
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men — George S. Patton
Could I betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life? — Stephenie Meyer
Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair… — Bell Hooks
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned… — Steve Martin
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of… — David Nicholls
The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished:… — Victor Hugo
If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will… — Charlotte Bronte
It's Simon. He's missing." "Ah," said Magnus, delicately, "missing what, exactly?" "Missing," Jace repeated, "as in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared."… — Cassandra Clare
I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn't matter if I was tall or short or fat or thin… — Julie Anne Peters
A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the… — Cassandra Clare
Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store; The absent… — Albert Pike
The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge… — Italo Calvino
This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didnâ€™t just follow you around the room but went home with you and… — Terry Pratchett
When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a… — Rumi
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead,… — Abraham Lincoln
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. — Abraham Lincoln
The answers were maddeningly absentâ€”it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist,… — Jennifer Egan
Because Iâ€™m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If thereâ€™s a saucer of milk to… — Catherynne M. Valente

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