Top 511 Absent Quotes & Sayings

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

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

St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.

The Mr. absent, and the house dead.

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

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.

Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

The absent feel and fear every ill.

Living in a city is stressful absent terrorism.

For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

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

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

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

Friends, though absent, are still present.

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

We have really no absent friends.

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

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

I love what I'm doing here but I hate being away from home. I hate it. I look forward to one day raising a family myself, and I really look forward to children but when that day comes, I don't want to be an absent dad. I'm already an absent husband.

There's a very big difference between people deciding to absent themselves from a shared space in order to make a point, which I support, and people deciding to absent somebody else, which I'm absolutely opposed to.

Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not stay still and you cannot make it stay still. It is your master and it separates you from beauty and God.

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

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

The absent are easily refuted.

The absent are always in the wrong

Conservatives cannot be absent from the debate on inequality and equality in the nation.

Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

Hate can only flourish where love is absent.

The absent partie is still faultie.

What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?

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

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.

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

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

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

The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.

God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

There's never been an era absent of demagogues.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

Books are absent teachers.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

Never find fault with the absent.

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

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

I don't think that all girls seek the influence of older men, but I think girls whose fathers are absent or recessed from their lives often do. And honestly, when I was growing up, fathers were generally pretty absent from their children's lives. We didn't see a lot of them. That may be something that has genuinely changed for the better in our culture: men are more present for their children now that more women are working.

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

Don't be absent from your own life.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.