Absent Quotes

320 quotes by 284 authors

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree
A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world. — Paulo Coelho
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to… — Peter Lynch
Achilles absent was Achilles still! — Homer
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a… — Elizabeth Bowen
When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. — Rajneesh
An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back… — Andre Gide
McEwan's Atonementâ€¦truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the pastâ€¦. The middle section of… — Noah Richler
Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where… — Lawrence Wright
The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to… — Thomas Keating
Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win. — Andy Bechtolsheim
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader,… — Alberto Manguel
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent. — Paul Schullery
Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent. — Brian Houston
To be absent from the iPhone is to be present in the moment. Ignore it. Make some friends. — Phil Callaway
Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know… — Barbara Damrosch
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it. — Charles Spurgeon
To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an… — Denis de Rougemont
The absent are easily refuted. — C.S. Lewis

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