Quotes About Absent

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

A trifle after noon the boys borrowed a small skiff from a citizen who was absent

T)here were always vacancies in the construct of life: blank spaces occupied by the unseen guest, the absent friend.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

Remember, null is intended to represent an object that isn't there.

vacant-brained

boredom and urban cynicism had become so natural to them that an experience from which these qualities were absent seemed to be, in some way, defective.

For example, many men are convinced it is somehow manly to produce children yet unmanly to take responsibility for them. This is why there are American households teeming with children but absent a father.

Not dead. Not injured. Just . . . gone.

disappearance.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

What is it then that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present? But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself.

Todo esto lo hacía Raúl como si estuviera ausente, como si fuera una imagen en un espejo. Pero tenía otra Vez en la cara la expresión burlonamente decidida del que no vacila en arriesgarse a un juego que en el fondo le importa poco." (Cortázar, Los Prémios, XL)

He had acquired a reputation for possessing a noble character, and even for being something of a hero - or, at least, in the assessment of one contemporary commentator, one of those parties who are able to fulfil the public need in the event of genuine heroes being absent or, for any reason, unpalatable.

The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns! For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.

The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.

Cosmic Ordering is absent in body but present in spirit.

Absent-minded

Humans are good, she knew, at discerning subtle patterns that are really there, but equally so at imagining them when they are altogether absent.

When Georges St-Pierre retired and Jon Jones was absent, I had Jose Aldo, the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. That's how highly I think of him.

I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

La alegría, la sorpresa y la admiración debieron de reflejarse claramente en él cuando su mirada se cruzó con la del añorado ausente, y en ese mismo instante Tadzio sonrió.