| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more. |
| Alexander Pope | Is not absence death to those who love? |
| Aphra Behn | No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea. |
| Ashleigh Brilliant | Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence. |
| Ben Jonson | In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. |
| Benjamin Franklin | The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. |
| Benjamin Franklin | The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. |
| Bible | 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, . . . |
| Charles Lam | 'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.' |
| Charles Reade | The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. |
| Colette | 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. |
| Elizabeth E Bowen | The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends. |
| English Proverb | The absent are always in the wrong. |
| Francis Kazincy | Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! |
| Francois De La Rochefoucauld | Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. |
| Frederick William Thomas | 'Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot. |
| Homer | Achilles absent, was Achilles still. |
| John Dryden | Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age. |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Absence, that common cure of love. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 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. |
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