quotations about absence
Absence not long enough to root out quite
All love, increases love at second sight.
THOMAS MAY
Henry II
Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
letter to Robert Browning, Walter Savage Landor: Last Days, Letters and Conversations
Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear
Thou ever wilt remain.
GEORGE LINLEY
Tho' Lost to Sight
We live together separately
We don't want to fall apart
But every time we kiss there's an emptiness
An absence of the heart
DEANA CARTER
"Absence of the Heart"
Achilles absent, was Achilles still.
HOMER
The Iliad
Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array---
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Days of Absence
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.
COLETTE
Earthly Paradise
Out of sight, out of mind.
HOMER
Odyssey
The absent shall not be made heir.
LATIN PROVERB
Absence is the invisible and incorporeal mother of ideal beauty.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
CHARLES LAMB
"Amicus Redivivus", Last Essays of Elia
Friends, though absent, are still present.
CICERO
De Amicitia
Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN
Epigram
As 'tis ever common
That men are merriest when they are from home.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry V
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS
Elegies
Absence! is not the soul torn by it
From more than light, or life, or breath?
'Tis Lethe's gloom, but not its quiet--
The pain without the peace of death!
THOMAS CAMPBELL
"Absence"
To him that is absent, all things succeed amiss.
CERVANTES
Don Quixote
The absent are like children; they are helpless to defend themselves.
CHARLES READE
Foul Play
Absence is the enemy of love.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Absence is the moonlight of affection.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
The Fate of Adelaide