Best 55 quotes in «absent quotes» category

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

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 words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.

Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Not an angel of the air, Bird melodious or bird fair, Be absent hence!

The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

That which is revealed when thoughts are absent is also here when thoughts are present.

The absent are always in the wrong

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.

This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.

To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.

To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

We have really no absent friends.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

When you seek a connection to God, you suffer. God is not absent.

When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.

How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?

Bea did not want a new mother. She'd hardly even seen the one she once had, except for glimpses out the window when her mother was climbing into a carriage to go off to a party. She'd been as beautiful as an angel, all sparkling and laughing in her lovely gowns, but not much use.

I am amazingly absent; I believe I am the most absent creature in the world.

I dreamed of dying, long before my dreams have died.

She couldn’t explain it except with the word: there. She was there. Present in herself. She wasn’t always, so it was worth remarking upon.

Influence is when you are not the one talking and yet your words fill the room; when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere.

One word absent from a sentence, or misinterpreted incorrectly, can change the entire meaning of a sentence. One word can change the meaning of everything. Before you believe anything about God or anybody, ask yourself how well do you trust the transmitter, translator or interpreter. And if you have never met them, then how do you know if the knowledge you acquired is even right? One hundred and twenty-five years following every major event in history, all remaining witnesses will have died. How well do you trust the man who has stored his version of a story? And how can you put that much faith into someone you don't know?

Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

The past is never past and the present was seeming increasingly absent. --Here Tomorrow

You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.

Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

Could I betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life?

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

[Eva Braun] complained when [Adolf Hitler] was absent, she complained that she was deprived of his company.

Hate can only flourish where love is absent.