Absent Quotes - Page 4

• It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Time, Shapes, Assuming

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

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• Achilles absent was Achilles still!

  Homer

  Achilles, Absence, Absent Mindedness

  Homer (1818). “The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates”, p.476

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• Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Goodbye, Self

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.245

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• They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

  Howard Zinn

  America, Political, Independence

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

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

  Giordano Bruno

  Pain, Stupid, Felt

  Giordano Bruno (2013). “Heroic Enthusiasts”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.

  Michel de Certeau

  Process, Walks, Walking

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.

  Eileen Simpson

  Mother, Children, Emotional

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• McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The middle section of Atonement, the two vividly realized set pieces of Robbie's trek to the Channel and Briony's experiences with the wounded evacuees of Dunkirk, would alone have made an outstanding novel…. There is wonderful writing throughout as McEwan weaves his many themes — the accidents of contingency, the sins of absent fathers, class oppression — into his narrative, and in a magical love scene.

  Noah Richler

  Art, Father, Writing

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• When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.

  Rumi

  Song, Garden, Light

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

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• Books are absent teachers.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teacher, Book

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• For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the lights go out and there is total blackness. And ifsome part of the non—entity we called George has indeed been absent at this moment of terminal shock, away out there on the deep water, then it will return to find itself homeless.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Light, Deep Water, Tissues

  "A Single Man".

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• It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Beautiful, Interesting, Insight

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Facing a World in Crisis: What Life Teaches Us in Challenging Times”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Art, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1365, Delphi Classics

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• Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Giving, Imagination

  Joseph Conrad “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad”, Library of Alexandria

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• Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.

  Sylvia Brownrigg

  People, Feels, Fronts

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• Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger

  Colin Powell

  Lying, Law, Poverty

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• When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.

  R. T. Kendall

  Spirit, Sin, Excuse

  R. T. Kendall, Joy Strang (2005). “By Love Transformed”, p.143, Charisma Media

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• When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

  Paul Schullery

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.126, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.

  Herophilos

  Art, Health, Bad Ass

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• Believers are increasingly aware that, unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in the experience of many people for whom this existential space is important.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Space, People, Important

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• I don't think the possibility for beauty can be foreclosed, because beauty can take so many forms. There is beauty that arises from the unexpected, when our familiar perspectives are thrown off balance. There is also the beauty that paradoxically comes out of the tragic, that emerges because we are reminded of what is no longer there, that becomes powerful because of what is absent.

  Sze Tsung Leong

  Powerful, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to pers­ue all people of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights, poor and rich, to carry aid promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends. I say this to those who are present, it is meant also for those who are absent. Moreover, Christ commands it.

  Pope Urban II

  Christian, Feet, Knights

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• Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most of what little there is consists of Randite rantings against parasites, barely distinguishable from the invective inflicted on dissidents by the Soviet press.

  Bob Black

  Law, Issues, Unemployment

  "The Abolition of Work and Other Essays". Book by Bob Black, 1986.

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