Absent Quotes

Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Don't be absent from your own life.

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

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

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

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.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

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

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

To be absent from the iPhone is to be present in the moment. Ignore it. Make some friends.

Books are absent teachers.

We have really no absent friends.

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

The absent are always in the wrong

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

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

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

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

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

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

Woman absent is woman dead.

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

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

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.

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

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

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.

The absent partie is still faultie.

Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.

What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?

The Mr. absent, and the house dead.

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

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.

The absent are easily refuted.

I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.