Absent Quotes

“This moment
everything is present here, except the things
that are not here,
and I'm not feeling like
disturbing them.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“This moment
everything is present here, except the things
that are not here.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“I am amazingly absent; I believe I am the most absent creature in the world.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.”
― Earl Nightingale

“I dreamed of dying, long before my dreams have died.”
― Anthony Liccione

“What living occasion can,
Be just to the absent?”
― W.H. Auden, Collected Poems

“One word absent from a sentence, or misinterpreted incorrectly, can change the entire meaning of a sentence. One word can change the meaning of everything. Before you believe anything about God or anybody, ask yourself how well do you trust the transmitter, translator or interpreter. And if you have never met them, then how do you know if the knowledge you acquired is even right? One hundred and twenty-five years following every major event in history, all remaining witnesses will have died. How well do you trust the man who has stored his version of a story? And how can you put that much faith into someone you don't know?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Influence is when you are not the one talking and yet your words fill the room; when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere.”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim

“Being there, but not being there.”
― Anthony Liccione

“How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?”
― Joyce Rachelle

“I mean imagine that shit. You bust your ass as a single parent, and your kid treats the absentee parent like a rock star. But love is like water and it slides over the smooth places. Sinks into the cracks.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She couldn’t explain it except with the word: there. She was there. Present in herself. She wasn’t always, so it was worth remarking upon.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“Bea did not want a new mother. She'd hardly even seen the one she once had, except for glimpses out the window when her mother was climbing into a carriage to go off to a party. She'd been as beautiful as an angel, all sparkling and laughing in her lovely gowns, but not much use.”
― Amanda McCabe, Running from Scandal

“Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are designed to allow us to embark upon a grand journey without ever leaving the armchair. However, real journeys are absent of furniture.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The past is never past and the present was seeming increasingly absent.
--Here Tomorrow”
― Kaleb Kilton

“Your biological parent may have been absent in your life, but God will always be present.”
― Thandazo Perfect Khumalo

“Hope is never absent. What’s absent is our faith in a reality that’s never absent.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Everyone’s off somewhere—Twitter, Facebook, TikTok… anywhere to dodge being home.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“I would confirm my suspicions were right and then go, secure in the knowledge that this nightmare—this beautiful, terrible horror— was well and truly over.
One step into his world at the edge of the underground lake, five whole basements beneath the bustling streets of the 9th arrondissement, was enough for me to know.
The Angel of Music, my tutor and tormentor, was not here.”
― Erin A. Craig, Our Strange Duet

“It was chiefly his ears that expressed the young man's ability to keep track of the present along with the absent. While registering every sound in the moving bus, they were equally aware of the glacier that was calving at the same time, of the blind feeling their way in the cities of every continent, or of the brook flowing now as always through his native village.”
― Peter Handke; Ralph Manheim [trans, Repetition