Quotes About Absent

others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did then when I was there on my second visit,

An overemphasis upon imminence in preaching has banished transcendence and tended to a theology of God being technically present as an observer but effectively absent as a participant. When

Cetshwayo, sensing there were vast numbers of men absent, asked where the rest of his regiments were. When told that they were dead, the king prohibited his people from the traditional celebrations following such a victory. Instead, he called for a time of mourning and is quoted as saying, "A spear has been thrust into the belly of our nation…there are not enough tears to mourn the dead.

But of Marcus Felstead there was no sign.

The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.

When you seek a connection to God, you suffer. God is not absent.

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone...when I came back the entire area was missing.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to po or suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time or is like to--this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favourably on the morality of the country?

Absent- that was what he was: so absent from everything most densely real and near to those about him that it sometimes startled him to find they still imagined he was there.

If I properly understood her métier, she replaces office workers temporarily absent?

Charlie … Silena's eyes were a million miles away. See Charlie.

They have gone missing? No, no, no, no, no, no, no No, et cetera

The house, despite its eerie absence of absent things, was not a comfortable place, and there was nothing compelling her to be here.

My mind, as is so often the case these days, was totally blank.

Hes gone. Hes just gone.

Just as a hologram is so structured that each part contains the whole, Finnegans Wake is structured in puns and synchronicities that contain and reflect each other, creating the closest approximation of an infinite regress ever achieved in any art-form. The absent is everpresent, the dead are all alive, and the abyss of uncertainty appears in every multi-meaningful sentence. (This will be illustrated below.)

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'

I'm going to disappear again.