Absent Quotes

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

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

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

Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.

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.

Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.

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.

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

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

Woman absent is woman dead.

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

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

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

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

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.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

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