Absent Quotes

Absent Quote of the day

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.

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

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

Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free!

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

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

We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

Friends, though absent, are still present.

Don't be absent from your own life.

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

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.

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.

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

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

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.

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

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.

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

Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

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

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.

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

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

God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their behalf.