Absent Quotes

320 quotes by 284 authors

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably… — Soren Kierkegaard
We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner… — Anneli Rufus
I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly… — Vincent Van Gogh
Bountiful is your life, full and complete. Or so you think, until someone comes along and makes you realize what you have been missing all… — Elif Safak
When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in… — Ingmar Bergman
If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I… — H.G. Wells
In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the… — William Styron
Never speak ill of an absent friend. — Plautus
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives… — Lord Chesterfield
My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background,… — Maira Kalman
Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest… — Geoffrey Canada
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt? — Giordano Bruno
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. — Don Lemon
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend… — Joyce Giraud
Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes. — Ryan Kavanaugh
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at… — Kate Bernheimer
The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent. — Theodore C. Sorensen
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease… — Colley Cibber
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. — George Santayana

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