Woman absent is woman dead.
Walter Bagehot
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Ambrose Bierce
You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.
John Chafee
Never find fault with the absent.
Alexander Pope
Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.
Sextus Propertius
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana
My father was absent and he was a hero to me.
Greta Scacchi
The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.
Theodore C. Sorensen
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Tacitus
I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
Indira Varma