bsence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
Absence
Ashley, Elizabeth
American Actress
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Absence
Bayly, Thomas Haynes
1791-1839 British Writer Poet
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Absence
Behan, Brendan F.
1923-1964 Irish Writer
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Absence
Benjamin, Walter
1982-1940 German Critic Philosopher
Woman absent is woman dead.
Absence
Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil’s Dictionary
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 pleas of the heart.
Absence
Bowen, Elizabeth
1899-1973 Anglo-Irish Novelist
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Absence
Bowen, Elizabeth
1899-1973 Anglo-Irish Novelist
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
Absence
Bruyere, Jean De La
1645-1696 French Classical Writer
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.
Absence
Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
Absence — that common cure of love.
Absence
Cervantes, Miguel De
1547-1616 Spanish Novelist Dramatist Poet
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Absence
Cibber, Colley
1671-1757 British Actor-Manager Playwright
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.
Absence
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
1873-1954 French Author
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Absence
Cowper, William
1731-1800 British Poet
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
Absence
Crichton, Michael
1942 American Writer Novelist Screenwriter Director Producer
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Absence
Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Absence
Fuller, Thomas
1608-1661 British Clergyman Author
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Absence
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Absence
Hale, Sir Matthew
1609-1676 British Judge
Achilles absent was Achilles still!
Absence
Homer
c 850 – BC Greek Epic Poet
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, and the gleam of the stars –all the beauties of creation.
Absence
Hugo, Victor
1802-1885 French Poet Dramatist Novelist
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Absence
Kempis, Thomas
1379-1471 German Monk Mystic Religious Writer
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
Absence
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
Absence and death are the same — only that in death there is no suffering.
Absence
Landor, Walter Savage
1775-1864 British Poet Essayist
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.
Absence
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
1892-1950 American Poet
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Absence
Ouida
1838-1908 British Writer
A short absence is the safest.
Absence
Ovid
BC 43-18 AD Roman Poet
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.
Absence
Pope, Alexander
1688-1744 British Poet Critic Translator
Never find fault with the absent.
Absence
Proverb
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.
Absence
Proverb
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.
Absence
Rowland, Helen
1875-1950 American Journalist
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!
Absence
Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Absence
Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
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.
Absence
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
1751-1816 Anglo-Irish Dramatist
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Absence
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
55-117 AD Roman Historian