Physically Present Mentally Absent Quotes

#1. The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

Ted Hughes

#2. The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

Alan Hirsch

#3. Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

Bernard Beckett

#4. I just didn't understand how sometimes people hurt us not because they want to but rather because they don't know how to do anything else.

Kevin Breel

#5. Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.

D.T. Suzuki

#6. A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.

Jon Champion

#7. I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

Bill Murray

#8. The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

John James Audubon

#9. Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

#10. Even very little things can change your destiny and throw you to a different path, to a different fate; you must never forget that even very little things have great powers!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

Denis Diderot