Absence Quotes
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. ~Theodore Roosevelt
To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. ~Hal Borland
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. ~Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Thomas Haynes Bayly
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. ~Dorothy Thompson
Woman absent is woman dead. Ambrose Bierce
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. ~Ovid
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Achilles absent was Achilles still! Homer
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. ~Samuel Johnson
Absence is the enemy of love. ~Proverb
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love. Proverb
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. ~Elizabeth
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Absence, that common cure of love. ~Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace. ~Anne Shaw
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. Lord Byron
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ~Henry Kissinger
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. ~William Shakespeare
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. Walter Benjamin
People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence. ~Henry Kissinger
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. Jean De La Bruyere
Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires. ~François de la Rochefoucauld
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. Helen Rowland
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. Elizabeth Bowen
A short absence is the safest. Ovid
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. Benjamin Franklin
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. Edna St. Vincent Millay
When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes. ~Hannah Moore
Greater things are believed of those who are absent. Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The absent are always in the wrong. English Proverb
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. Sir Matthew Hale
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ~Ambrose Bierce
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. ~William Hazlitt
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. Thomas Fuller
Never find fault with the absent. Proverb
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”. ~Mark Twain
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Thomas p Kempis
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. ~Freya Stark
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. ~Jean Paul Richter
Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence. Ashleigh Brilliant
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ~Havelock Ellis
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age. ~John Dryden
How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! William Shakespeare
The absence of war is not peace. ~Harry S Truman
Parting is such sweet sorrow. William Shakespeare
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. Brendan F. Behan
Absence -- that common cure of love. Miguel De Cervantes
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. Michael Crichton
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation. Victor Hugo
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Absence means to be out of sight due to any reason. This topic is very important because it is related with different issues concerning our lives. When you remain detached from a relationship it can have several positive and of course negative effects on it. So it is advisable not to remain absent from the scene of a very long time without any solid reason. People around you will start getting use to without you and this may lessen your importamce. All the good lessons are given in the absence quotes given above. One of them is that we should not talk evil in the absence of any person as this can be taken as back-biting.