Absence Quote by Tacitus

“This had happened to him before - in an effort to disappear, he had made himself more conspicuous.”

— Dave Eggers

I dote on his very absence.

— William Shakespeare

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

— Patrick Süskind

“Or maybe his reclusiveness was a decisive marketing strategy-if you disappear, people are more interested in your work. You become a legend while you're…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“His cruelty was in his absence.”

— Alice Sebold

“This sense of absence had been growing ... It was wearing into him. Last night he had woken besides his sleeping wife and had…

— Ian McEwan

“Nobody bothered with him. His failures were private and invisible”

— Ann Brashares

He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in…

— Alice Miller

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and,…

— Samuel Johnson

He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.

— George Barr McCutcheon

He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.

— Cornelius Nepos