Absented Quotes

#1. It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landlocked, unacquainted with love and all but a stranger to death ... I had absented myself in my smug and airless self-deprivation.

William Styron

#2. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

George Orwell

#3. She had already absented herself, I knew, gone to that other place in her mind where Julian was sweet and kind and life was fun, or if it wasn't fun, it was interesting, and wasn't that valuable, didn't that mean something?

Emma Cline

#4. Trauma narratives are hallmarked by fragmentation, broken chronology, changing perspectives, shifts in tone, and absented moments. I

Adam Johnson

#5. Wit is educated insolence.

Aristotle.

#6. Well, yeah. Fireworks, the seventh Shy Maiden to dance out of the tree, stuff like that.

Nils Nisse Visser

#7. Americans are not afraid of the future.

Hasso Plattner

#8. I think the most significant moment at a wedding is when you say "I do" and when you do the first dance.

Tyrese Gibson

#9. Midwives do not fear life.

Anita Diamant

#10. Sir 15:11 Say not: It is through God, that she is not with me: for do not thou the things that he hateth.

Various