quotations about absence
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years;
And every little absence is an age.
JOHN DRYDEN
Amphitryon
Perchance all des'late and forlorn
These eyes shall miss thee many a year;
But unforgotten every charm--
Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear.
RUTHVEN JENKINS
"Sweetheart, Goodbye"
The absent are like children; they are helpless to defend themselves.
CHARLES READE
Foul Play
You must know of something's existence before you can notice its absence.
E.L. KONIGSBURG
The View from Saturday
Absence doesn't always make the heart grow fonder. Sometimes it just teaches us that we can live apart.
MICHAEL FAUDET
Smoke & Mirrors
Wives in their husband's absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!
FRANCIS KAZINCZY
Separation
'Tis said that absence conquers love;
But oh believe it not!
I've tried, alas! its power to prove,
But thou art not forgot.
FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMAS
Absence Conquers Love
There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
Her Fearful Symmetry