She affected me, even when she was absent.
Was there someone absent from the table of creation?
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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.
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.
When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Cosmic Ordering is absent in body but present in spirit.
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.
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.
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
