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Absence Quotes
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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)