Absentia Quotes

#1. I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

Tom Stoppard

#2. The pure administration of Graham-and-Doddery really needs a long-term lock-up like Warren Buffett has, or it will have occasional quite dreadful client problems.

Jeremy Grantham

#3. My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.

Tom Odell

#4. Absentia. Assuming he comes back alive, they will force him into a shameful

Rick Riordan

#5. I think any actor will tell you that they always assume they'll never work again, so every job becomes important.

Patrick Fabian

#6. Besides, there's no issue. Not yet, at least. Ryu's in Boston; I'm in Rockabill; Anyan is in absentia. So I'll just keep ignoring everything till I get walloped with it. Then I'll panic and run to you.

Nicole Peeler

#7. We were perfect in our mad sanity.

A Meredith Walters

#8. The ocean tries to flood a boat, fire wants to eat the wood, the mind wills to regret, and silence shapes a landscape more deftly than sound - all of that was true.

Christopher Bollen

#9. The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

William Shakespeare

#10. Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#11. But what Freud showed us ... was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

Jacques Lacan

#12. I don't like when performers rag on their ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend in absentia. If they're not there, it just feels rude ... I'm never going to say anything personal about myself on stage. That's my new goal.

David Rees

#13. I was an utterance in absentia. I was a forgotten word, uttered and mislaid long ago. I was the word that existed because there was another word that was my opposite, and without it I was nothing. I gained meaning only by acknowledging that possible other.
Nida

Faiqa Mansab

#14. O we are wearied of this sense of guilt,
Wearied of pleasure's paramour despair,
Wearied of every temple we have built,
Wearied of every unanswered right, unanswered prayer,
For man is weak; God sleeps: and heaven is high:
One fiery-colored moment: one great love: and lo! we die.

Oscar Wilde

#15. The wonderful thing about acting is they're always going to need old codgers!

George Takei