Absence Quotes
- A little absence does a lot of good.~ French Proverb
- Long absence changes friends.~ French Proverb
- A short absence is the safest.~ Ovid
- Absence — that common cure of love.~ Miguel De Cervantes
- Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.~ Traditional Proverb
- Absence and death are the same — only that in death there is no suffering.~ Walter Savage Landor
- Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.~ Elizabeth Bowen
- Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.~ Elizabeth Ashley
- Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.~ William Cowper
- Absence is a foe to love; away from the eyes, away from the heart.~ Italian Proverb
- Absence is a shrew.~ English Proverb
- Absence is the enemy of love.~ Italian Proverb
- Virginity is noted only in its absence.~ Italian Proverb
- Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.~ Comte De Bussy-Rabutin
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
- Absence makes the heart forget.~ Kenyan Proverb
- Absence of proof is not proof of absence.~ Michael Crichton
- Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.~ Thomas Fuller
- 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.~ Helen Rowland
- Greater things are believed of those who are absent.~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- He who maligns you in your absence is afraid of your presence.~ Catalonian Proverb
- I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.~ Brendan F. Behan
- In the absence of honest men, they made my father mayor.~ Spanish Proverb
- 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.~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- Never find fault with the absent.~ Author Unknown
- No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.~ Jean De La Bruyere
- Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.~ Colley Cibber
- Parting is such sweet sorrow.~ William Shakespeare
- Salt water and absence wash away love.~ Traditional Proverb
- Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.~ Walter Benjamin
- Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.~ Sir Matthew Hale
- The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.~ Benjamin Franklin
- The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.~ Ouida
- The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.~ Goethe
- When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.~ Thomas Kempis
- Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Woman absent is woman dead.~ Ambrose Bierce
- You cannot shave a man’s head in his absence.~ Yoruba Proverb
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