quotations about absence
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
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Premieres Meditations Poetiques
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
The Death of the Heart
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But aye the tear comes in my eye
To think on him that's far away.
ROBERT BURNS
The Bonie Lad That's Far Away
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
TACITUS
Histories
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Think not, O thou guide of my youth, that absence can impair my respect, or interposing trackless deserts blot your reverend figure from my memory.... By every remove, I only drag a greater length of chain.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Citizen of the World
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years;
And every little absence is an age.
JOHN DRYDEN
Amphitryon
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What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE
Absence
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Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
JAMES HOWELL
Familiar Letters
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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
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