Absent Quote by Colley Cibber

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away, do their…

— Haruki Murakami

The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of…

— Orville Dewey

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone,…

— Marcel Proust

“It struck me that perhaps a lot of the people you see walking about are dead. We say that a man's dead when his…

— George Orwell

Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, the person whose thoughts are still spoken is never dead.

— Vikrant Parsai

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish?”

— Haruki Murakami

They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not…

— Jean Genet

Those who deny the change in consciousness that the divine process of creation now brings about-or actually imposes on us-and fail to develop their…

— Carl Johan Calleman

We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as…

— John Lancaster Spalding