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Absent Quotes by Roland Barthes
- New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a…
- Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two…
More Absent Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not… — Annie Besant
- Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Ambrose Bierce
- The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Elizabeth Bowen
- Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food… — Geraldine Brooks
- The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. — Benjamin Franklin
- Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose… — John Calvin
- Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on… — Ronald Reagan
- All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and… — Germaine Greer
- When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is… — Herophilos
- When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away. — R. T. Kendall
- Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. — Lucretius