quotations about absence
Absence not long enough to root out quite
All love, increases love at second sight.
THOMAS MAY
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Henry II
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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
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Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear
Thou ever wilt remain.
GEORGE LINLEY
Tho' Lost to Sight
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Achilles absent, was Achilles still.
HOMER
The Iliad
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Friends, though absent, are still present.
CICERO
De Amicitia
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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"
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Absence is the invisible and incorporeal mother of ideal beauty.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
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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
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Out of sight, out of mind.
HOMER
Odyssey
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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
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To him that is absent, all things succeed amiss.
CERVANTES
Don Quixote
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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"
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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
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The absent shall not be made heir.
LATIN PROVERB
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Absence is the moonlight of affection.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
The Fate of Adelaide
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As 'tis ever common
That men are merriest when they are from home.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry V
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The absent are like children; they are helpless to defend themselves.
CHARLES READE
Foul Play
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Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN
Epigram
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Everyone agrees that the absent are warned by a ringing in the ears when they are being talked about.
PLINY
Naturalis Historia
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
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