(49 quotes found)
“A good husband is healthy and absent.”
Japanese Proverb
“Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality”
Cyril Connolly
“Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence”
Maurice Maeterlinck
“Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.”
George Santayana
“Achilles absent, was Achilles still”
Homer
“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.”
Colley Cibber
“Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.”
William Shakespeare
“Greater things are believed of those who are absent”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“[Discrimination isn't always conscious, or maybe it's just absent-minded.] I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans, ... Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race.”
Condoleeza Rice
“And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between thee and me, when we are absent one from another.”
Bible
