Absent Quotes

320 quotes by 284 authors

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. — Robert Bly
Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the… — Chris Van Hollen
I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me.… — David Brainerd
The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When like and dislike are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make… — Sengcan
Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger. — Propertius
Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making. — Steve Mirsky
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality. — Cyril Connolly
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by… — Heloise
Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better. — Propertius
All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has a way of… — Joseph Rusling Meeker
I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you.… — Matt Damon
Believers are increasingly aware that, unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in the experience of… — Pope Benedict XVI
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly… — Desmond Tutu
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent." — Heraclitus
Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook. She has… — Glen Keane
The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy.… — Elisabeth Elliot
Look at the animals roaming the forest: Godâ€™s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: Godâ€™s spirit dwells within them.… — Pelagius
I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety,… — Frederic Chopin
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon,… — Michel Leiris
One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself. — Bobbie Ann Mason

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