Quotes of: Absent Keyword

This bed yawns beneath the weight of our absent selves.

The Complete Collected Poems

While the Holy Spirit is hidden, He is never, ever absent

Breakfast in the temple

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

Lucretius

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.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

Gerhard Richter

Rubbing absently at my temple, I do declare this woman leaves me flabbergasted and tongue tied.

Ryan

One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.

Shiloh and Other Stories

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

Gary L. Francione

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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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.

Jacques Lacan

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Bryant H. McGill

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

John James Audubon

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.

Derek Luke

There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Where love is absent, violence is a glaring possibility. Introduce love into any situation and violence gradually evaporates.

Pooja Ruprell

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

The Dispossessed

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Julian Barnes

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

Animal Farm

Possession of a friend should be with the spirit: the spirit's never absent: it sees daily whoever it likes.

Letters from a Stoic

Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve; Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit

Phèdre