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Absent Quotes

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.64, 谷月社

Friends, though absent, are still present.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.181

Don't be absent from your own life.

"16 Commencement Speeches That'll Change Your Views About Work, Love, and Money" by Jillian Kramer, www.glamour.com.

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

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

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.26, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

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

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Overbury (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, now first collected: Edited with notes, and a biograph. account of the author by E. F. Rimbault”, p.190

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

"Historiae (Histories)". Book by Tacitus, circa 104-109 AD.

The absent are always in the wrong

"L'Obstacle Imprévu" by Philippe Néricault Destouches, translated by Nérine, Act I., Scene VI, 1717.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.15, Sophia Institute Press

We have really no absent friends.

Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_”, p.300, e-artnow