A Quote by W. H. Auden

What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?

W. H. Auden

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Absent Just Living Occasion

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W. H. Auden
English - Poet
February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973

The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

Jonathan Majors

Living in a city is stressful absent terrorism.

John Ross Bowie

The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

Don Van Vliet

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

Saul Bellow

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Mary Manin Morrissey

living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.

George Sand

Well . . ." St. Vincent walked slowly with her to the crowd of dancers. "I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just a bit wicked.

Lisa Kleypas

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Richard...," Julie said, staring down at the open jewelry case in her hand. Inside was an ornate, heart-shaped locket supported by a gold chain. "It's beautiful. But... why? I mean, what's the occasion?" "No occasion. I just saw it and, well... I liked it. Or rather, I thought of you and knew you should have it.

Nicholas Sparks

Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.