Absent Quotes

320 quotes by 284 authors

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their… — Paul Weyrich
The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the… — Herman Melville
We have really no absent friends. — Elizabeth Bowen
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows,… — Hippocrates
I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to… — Alexei Sayle
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles,… — Henry James
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the… — Isidore of Seville
Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know… — Desmond Tutu
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord. — Charles Lamb
I'm not surprised people are being slaughtered, people are being martyred. Our hope isn't in this world as believers, it's in the eternity. To be… — Russell Okung
Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person. — Sigmund Freud
He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain… — Ted Dekker
Everything disturbs an absent lover. — Miguel de Cervantes
[W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry… — Rajneesh
Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred. — George Santayana
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. — Charles Dudley Warner
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. — Maurice Maeterlinck
I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip… — Dan Greenburg
Where love is absent there can be no woman. — George Sand

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