Absence Quotes
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Is not absence death to those who love? (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and stream. (Quote by - George Linley)
L'absence diminue les me¤ diocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent e¤ teint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire. (Quote by - La Rochefoucauld)
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. (Quote by - Sir Matthew Hale)
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. (Quote by - Alfred, Lord Tennyson )
What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace? (Quote by - Frances Anne)
For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, . . . (Quote by - Bible)
Salt water and absence wash away love. (Quote by - Traditional Proverb)
Sometimes I need what only you can provide your absence. (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant)
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)
I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson )
But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. (Quote by - Thomas a Kempis)
Everything presses onöwhilst thou art twisting that lock,ösee! It grows grey; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and everyabsence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make. (Quote by - Sterne, Laurence)
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. (Quote by - Rushdie, (Ahmed) Salman)
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. (Quote by - Lord George Gordon Noel Byron)
Absence is a shrew. (Quote by - English Proverb)
How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness everywhere! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The absence of war is not peace. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
The absent are always in the wrong (Quote by - English Proverb)
The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. (Quote by - Edward Thomas)
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. (Quote by - Freya Stark)
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. (Quote by - Colley Cibber)
You`ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea. (Quote by - Albanian Proverb )
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)
Virginity is noted only in its absence. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. (Quote by - Don Williams, Jr. )
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. (Quote by - Tacitus)
Absence that common cure of love. (Quote by - Cervantes, Miguel De)
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. (Quote by - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)
The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis. (Quote by - Peck, M(organ) Scott)
Absence -- that common cure of love. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. (Quote by - Elizabeth Ashley)
And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope- nothing else (Quote by - Patti Davis)
Greater things are believed of those who are absent. (Quote by - Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! (Quote by - Francis Kazincy)
For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw; There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa. - William Julius Mickle, (Quote by - William Julius Mickle)
All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell )
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. (Quote by - Dr. Carl Sagan)
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
You cannot shave a man's head in his absence. (Quote by - Yoruba Proverb)
Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. (Quote by - Harrison Ford)
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. (Quote by - William Shakespeare )
For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? (Quote by - Saint Augustine )
Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. (Quote by - Edwin C Bliss)
Total absence of humor renders life impossible. (Quote by - Colette )
Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? (Quote by - Richard Bach)
Achilles absent, was Achilles still. (Quote by - Homer)
Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes. (Quote by -Archie Robinson Quotes)
Absence is a foe to love; away from the eyes, away from the heart. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
God is absence. God is the solitude of man. (Quote by - Jean- Paul Sartre)
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing. (Quote by - Ransom,John Crowe)
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well! We have really no absent friends. (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. (Quote by - Jean De La Bruyere)
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, andthe gleam of the stars all the beauties of creation. (Quote by - Hugo, Victor)
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence. (Quote by - Shelagh Delaney)
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. (Quote by - Janet Watson )
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. (Quote by - Alphonse de Lamartine)
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Absent in body, but present in spirit. (Quote by - Bible)
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. (Quote by - Kay Knudsen)
Absence makes the heart forget. (Quote by - Kenyan Proverb)
They are good that are away. (Quote by - Scottish Proverb)
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walkingaround in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. (Quote by - Millay, Edna St. Vincent)
Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. (Quote by - Author Unknown)
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
Absence makes the heart grow wander. (Quote by - Gerald Barzan)
There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you. (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant )
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,-- Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart. (Quote by - Wordsworth,William)
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? (Quote by - Arthur Miller)
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. (Quote by - Khalil Gibran)
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. (Quote by - Thomas A Kempis)
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. (Quote by - Henry B. Adams)
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
Never find fault with the absent. (Quote by - Proverb)
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
He who maligns you in your absence is afraid of your presence. (Quote by - Catalonian Proverb)
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. (Quote by - Propertius)
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. (Quote by - Charles Reade)
Woman absent is woman dead. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great. (Quote by - Roger de Bussy-Rabutin)
Parting is such sweet sorrow. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
In the absence of honest men, they made my father mayor. (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza )
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long. (Quote by - Albanian Proverb )
Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.' (Quote by - Charles Lam )
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. (Quote by - William Cowper)
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it. (Quote by - Coco Chanel )
Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires. (Quote by - François de la Rochefoucauld)
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the the heart. (Quote by - Bowen, Elizabeth)
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde )
Long absence changes friends. (Quote by - French Proverb)
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)
Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence. (Quote by - Lord John Russell (1))
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea. (Quote by - Aphra Behn)
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
Absence is the enemy of love (Quote by - Proverb)
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. (Quote by - Ambrose Redmoon)
L'absence est a' l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; Il e¤ teint le petit, il allume le grand. Absence is to love what wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small, it kindles the great. (Quote by - Bussy)
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It`s the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can`t see, and when the wind blows through .. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard )
A short absence is the safest. (Quote by - Ovid)
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. (Quote by - William Cowper)
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza )
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age. (Quote by - John Dryden)
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. (Quote by - Brendan F. Behan)
When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension. (Quote by - Sheridan, Richard Brinsley)
A little absence does a lot of good. (Quote by - French Proverb)
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. (Quote by - Chuang Tzu)
Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by. (Quote by - George Linley)
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love. (Quote by - Proverb)
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. (Quote by - Neal A. Maxwell)
Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence. (Quote by - Berger,John Peter)
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget. (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)
Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. (Quote by - Steiner, George)
When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence (Quote by - Brendan Behan)
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. (Quote by - Cowper, William)
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. (Quote by - Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes. (Quote by - Hannah Moore)
