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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Ambrose Bierce
People, Absence, Absent Friends

The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

Samuel Daniel
Danger, Absent, Stills
Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.283

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

Propertius
Lovers, Absent Mindedness, Absent

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

Plautus
Friends, Speak, Absent Mindedness
Plautus (2007). “The Rope and Other Plays”, p.182, Penguin UK

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]

Ovid
Deeds, Crime, Absent

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

Jeff Buckley
Singing, Absent

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

Greta Scacchi
Father, Hero, Absent

Woman absent is woman dead.

Ambrose Bierce
Absence, Absent

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

Alexander Pope
Friendship, Dear Friend, Absent
Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.156

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

Miguel de Cervantes
Lovers, Absent
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Gretchen Rubin
Exercise, Our Actions, Absent
Gretchen Rubin (2009). “The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.14, Harper Collins

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

Albert Camus
Space, Moments, Absent

That which is revealed when thoughts are absent is also here when thoughts are present.

Mooji
Revelations, Absent

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

Mason Cooley
Decision, Inevitable, Absent Minded

[Eva Braun] complained when [Adolf Hitler] was absent, she complained that she was deprived of his company.

Gretl Braun
Company, Absent, Deprived

What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?

W. H. Auden
Absent, Occasions

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

Sylvia Brownrigg
People, Feels, Absent

Could I betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life?

Stephenie Meyer
Heart, Betray, Absent

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

Publilius Syrus
Men, Quarrels, Absent

I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.

Matt Dillon
Creeps, Absent Minded, Absent

I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.

Maria V. Snyder
Doubt, Absent, Delinquents
Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Inside: Inside Out\Outside In”, p.45, Harlequin

The absent partie is still faultie.

George Herbert
Absent, Stills
George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.331

The Mr. absent, and the house dead.

George Herbert
House, Absent
George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.361

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

Charles Rangel
Father, Absent, Ifs

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

Cat Stevens
Music Business, Absent, Various

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