Absent Quotes

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

Woman absent is woman dead.

Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!

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

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.

Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it 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.]

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

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

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.

Hate can only flourish where love is absent.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

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

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn't go to vote. He's absent.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

Believers are increasingly aware that, unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in the experience of many people for whom this existential space is important.

You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives

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

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?

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

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.