Absent Mindedness Quotes

• Los hombres deben saber que del cerebro, y sólo del cerebro, surgen nuestros placeres, alegrías, risas y bromas, así como nuestras penas, dolores, aflicciones y lágrimas.

  Hippocrates

  Laughter, Pain, Grief

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• I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.

  Frédéric Chopin

  Vida, Sueño, Dulce

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.

  Nathalia Crane

  Tails, Lines, Bees

  Nathalia Crane (1925). "El chico del conserje y otros poemas".

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• The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

  Saul Bellow

  Secret, Innocence, Guilty

  1987 More Die of Heartbreak.

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• Los hombres deberían saber que del cerebro y sólo del cerebro surgen nuestros placeres, alegrías, risas y bromas, así como nuestras penas, dolores, aflicciones y lágrimas. ... Es lo mismo lo que nos hace enloquecer o delirar, lo que nos inspira temor y miedo, ya sea de noche o de día, lo que nos trae insomnio, errores inoportunos, ansiedades sin rumbo, despistes y actos contrarios a la costumbre.

  Hippocrates

  Laughter, Pain, Mistake

  Hippocrates (1967). "Hippocrates"

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• ¡Aquiles ausente era Aquiles todavía!

  Homer

  Achilles, Absence, Stills

  Homero (1818). "La Ilíada de Homero. Traducida por A. Pope. Una nueva edición. Adornada con láminas", p.476

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• Nunca encuentres defectos en el ausente.

  Alexander Pope

  Faltas, Literatura, Ausencia

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• Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

  Propertius

  Lovers, Absent, Ardor

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• Mayores cosas se creen de los ausentes.

  Tácito

  Belief, Absence, Greater Things

  "Historiae (Historias)". Libro de Tácito, hacia 104-109 d.C.

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• Never speak ill of an absent friend.

  Plauto

  Friends, Speak, Ill

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

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• Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

  N. T. Wright

  Atheism, Firsts, Produce

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• Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.

  Albert Camus

  Book, Reality, Cities

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.50, Vintage

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