Quotes About Absent

To share in this sacred meal was so deeply felt to be the essential expression of membership of the society that fragments of the broken bread were taken round to any who were absent through illness or imprisonment.

There is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together into 'coteries' where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumor that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other groups can say.

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

I first noticed I was missing on a Thursday.

The missing aren't missing, they're only departed

When I looked in her eyes they were blue but nobody home. - Scarey Monsters (and Super Creeps)

At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid.

her first day in Paris she can hardly get out of bed. When finally she does, she stands at the window and watches the cats. She does not feel depressed so much as absent. She

A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.

Haven't seen him since he clocked off last

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

You cannot measure anything unless you have a point. So, if the center is absent, there is no circumference at all. That is pure and simple basic arithmetic.

Yet Tracey was steadfast and loyal to his memory, far more likely to defend her absent father than I was to speak kindly of my wholly attentive one.

I look back on how I was as a child, I had a wonderful mom and an absent father, but I still had a great childhood.

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

Quarrelling with a drunkard is like disputing with a man who is not present there.

I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.

You can have levels of trust, and you can question trust, but it shouldn't be something that's absent. I think, for any sort of relationship, there has to be levels of that.

While I can make do with technology for other administrative work, I have to be physically present in my constituency, or I will be marked absent.

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

I fear that most of them have been too literally his vicars. A man is a vicar only when his superior is absent. If the pope rules, while Christ is absent and does not dwell in his heart, what else is he but a vicar of Christ? What is the church under such a vicar but a mass of people without Christ?

How much more properly did the apostles call themselves servants of the present Christ and not vicars of an absent Christ.

It was by this outlet that Lady Audley meant to make her escape. She could easily remove the bar and unfasten the shutter, and she might safely venture to leave the window ajar while she was absent.