1.
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
Giordano Bruno
2.
Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.
Brian Houston
5.
To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.
Michel de Certeau
6.
Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.
Warren Buffett
7.
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.
Epicurus
8.
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
George S. Kaufman
10.
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
Louise Brooks
11.
No god is absent where prudence dwells.
Juvenal
12.
When you seek a connection to God, you suffer. God is not absent.
Mark Whitwell
14.
To be absent from the iPhone is to be present in the moment. Ignore it. Make some friends.
Phil Callaway
17.
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
21.
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
H. P. Lovecraft
22.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
[Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]
Ovid
23.
The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
Samuel Daniel
27.
Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.
Propertius
28.
There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.
Jeff Buckley
29.
I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
Albert Camus
31.
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.
Gretchen Rubin
32.
I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.
Matt Dillon
34.
I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.
Maria V. Snyder
35.
Could I betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life?
Stephenie Meyer
36.
[Eva Braun] complained when [Adolf Hitler] was absent, she complained that she was deprived of his company.
Gretl Braun
37.
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.
Cat Stevens
39.
Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.
Sylvia Brownrigg
40.
What living occasion can,
Be just to the absent?
W. H. Auden
41.
If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.
Charles Rangel
43.
That which is revealed when thoughts are absent is also here when thoughts are present.
Mooji
44.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
Publilius Syrus