Absent Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

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

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

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

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

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

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

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

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

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

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

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

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.