Quotes about Absence

“Woman absent is woman dead.”

“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”

“A short absence is the safest.”

“Achilles absent was Achilles still!”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”

“Absence -- that common cure of love.”

“Absence of proof is not proof of absence.”

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”

“Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.”

“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.”

“Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.”

“Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.”

“Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.”

“The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.”

“When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.”

“Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.”

“Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.”

“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”

“The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.”

“No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.”

“The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.”

“Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.”

“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.”

“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.”

“I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”