Absent Quotes

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. (Hannah Arendt)
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. View quote
Henry James
I find that moral courage is the most valuable and most usually absent characteristic. View quote
George S. Patton
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. View quote
Propertius
Never find fault with the absent. View quote
Alexander Pope
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. View quote
Alexander Pope
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. View quote
Elizabeth Bowen
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord. View quote
Charles Lamb
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. View quote
Will Smith
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. (Robert Bly)
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man. View quote
Simone Weil
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear. View quote
Isidore of Seville
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. View quote
André Maurois
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever. View quote
Margaret Drabble
If I ever become a Saint - I surely be one of "darkness". I will continually be absent from Heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth. View quote
Mother Teresa
The absent partie is still faultie. View quote
George Herbert
The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious. View quote
Michael Behe
In a word, the opinions of learned authors, though their bodily forms are absent, gain strength as time time goes on, and, when taking part in councils and discussions, have greater weight than those of any living men. View quote
Vitruvius
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd. (Alberto Manguel)
I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it. View quote
Eminem
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent. View quote
John Kotter