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Absence Quotes


These are some of the best 'Absence' quotations and sayings.


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A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and fan a fire.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Absence, that common cure of love.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

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.


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