Absence Love Quotes

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Relationship, Lonely

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• Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

  George Fetherling

  Relationship, Wall, Distance

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• Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

  Kai Knudsen

  Love, I Miss You, Boyfriend

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• Absence - that common cure of love.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Funny, Epic

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  Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

  Richard Bach

  Love, Friendship, I Miss You

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

  William Cowper

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne”, p.28

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• The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

  Edward Thomas

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Edward Thomas (2012). “Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.150, Other Press, LLC

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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• Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Love, Life, Sad

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Missing You, Distance, World Suffering

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• Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

  William Shakespeare

  Distance, Blow, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

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• Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

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• Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

  John Dryden

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.196

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

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Goodbye, Self

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.245

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  People, Absence, Absent Friends

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• The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Inspirational, Trials, Absence

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• Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Love, Women, Distance

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• 'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

  Frederick William Thomas

  Love, Art, Believe

  Frederick William Thomas (1847). “Clinton Bradshaw: Or, The Adventures of a Lawyer. Two Volumes in One”, p.117

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• Days of absence, sad and dreary,
  Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -
  Days of absence, I am weary;
  She I love is far away.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  "Day of Absence". Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.

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• Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Long Distance Relationship, Wings, Distance Love

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• Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

  Thomas Overbury

  Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Absence, Absent Friends

  Thomas Overbury (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, now first collected: Edited with notes, and a biograph. account of the author by E. F. Rimbault”, p.190

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• Is not absence death to those who love?

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Absence, Saying Good Bye

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope. Recommendatory poems. A discourse on pastoral poetry. Pastorals. Messiah. Windsor forest. Odes. Two chorus's to the tragedy of Brutus. The dying Christian to his soul. An essay on criticism. The rape of the lock. Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady. Prologue to Mr. Addison's tragedy of Cato. Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore”, p.379

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• No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

  Aphra Behn

  Sea, Long, No Friends

  Aphra Behn, John Philip Kemble (1790). “Love in Many Masks: as altered by J. P. Kemble from Mrs. Behn's Rover [i.e. from the first part].”, p.8

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