Absence Quotes

23 quotations about Absence
Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.
Walter Savage Landor · Absence
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Ouida · Absence
A short absence is the safest.
Ovid · Absence
Never find fault with the absent.
Proverb · Absence
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.
Proverb · Absence
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
William Shakespeare · Absence
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus · Absence
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
Elizabeth Ashley · Absence
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Thomas Haynes Bayly · Absence
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Walter Benjamin · Absence
Woman absent is woman dead.
Ambrose Bierce · Absence
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Elizabeth Bowen · Absence
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
Jean De La Bruyere · Absence
Absence -- that common cure of love.
Miguel De Cervantes · Absence
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Colley Cibber · Absence
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper · Absence
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
William Cowper · Absence
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin · Absence
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas Fuller · Absence
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Absence
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Sir Matthew Hale · Absence
Achilles absent was Achilles still!
Homer · Absence
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Thomas Kempis · Absence

Authors on Absence

Elizabeth Ashley Thomas Haynes Bayly Walter Benjamin Ambrose Bierce Elizabeth Bowen Jean De La Bruyere Miguel De Cervantes Colley Cibber William Cowper Benjamin Franklin Thomas Fuller Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Sir Matthew Hale Homer Thomas Kempis Walter Savage Landor Ouida Ovid Proverb William Shakespeare