Absent Quotes

Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.

The absent are easily refuted.

It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.

A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.

It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared

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.

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

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

I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.

Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

The absent partie is still faultie.

The Mr. absent, and the house dead.

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

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

The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn't matter if I was tall or short or fat or thin or absent every day. I was a loser from birth.

It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

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

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

The absent feel and fear every ill.

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

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.

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

Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but absent enforcement, there are too many accidents.

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

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

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

This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.

Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

Not an angel of the air, Bird melodious or bird fair, Be absent hence!

What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times! O weary reckoning!

How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?

The past is never past and the present was seeming increasingly absent.--Here Tomorrow

You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.