Absent Quotes

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.

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

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

The brightest star on a cloudless night Some kind of miracle, almost empty sky... Just as the bite of the blade wakes the absent mind There's time to dream and there's time to open your eyes

When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

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

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

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased

There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.

When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

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

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

We have really no absent friends.

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

Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.

And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

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

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

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

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

The absent are always in the wrong

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.