“Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence”
Maurice Maeterlinck
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
Maxim Gorky
“Lack of identity, father's never bein' themselves. That's an obscenity - how could we allow this to dwell?”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“My presence of mind is frequently absent.”
Rain Bojangles
“Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality”
Cyril Connolly
“A good husband is healthy and absent.”
Japanese Proverb
“Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.”
George Santayana