Absent Friends Quotes

• Absence - that common cure of love.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Funny, Epic

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• Friends, though absent, are still present.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Absence, Stills

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.181

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• If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

  Will Smith

  Inspiring, Trust, Inspiration

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

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• To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lost Love, Giving, Devil

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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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• Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store; The absent friends remembered be, in all that’s sung or said, And Love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead.

  Albert Pike

  Memories, Together, And Love

  Albert Pike, “Re-Union”

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• I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me. I wrestled for absent friends, for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes of poor souls, and for many that I thought were the children of God, in many distant places. I was in such an agony, for half an hour before sunset, till near dark, that I was all over wet with sweat: but yet is seemed to me that I had wasted away the day, and had done nothing. Oh!, my dear Savior did sweat blood for poor souls!

  David Brainerd

  Children, Sunset, Dark

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.65

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• Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Karma, Peace

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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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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• I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Memories, Thinking, Glasses

  Vincent van Gogh, Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, Calif.) (1990). “Vincent van Gogh, painter, printmaker, collector”

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• If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

  Heloise

  Memories, Regret, Character

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• More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

  John Donne

  Love, Romantic, Kissing

  'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)

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• An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Giving, Friendly

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• He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

  Horace

  Men, Speak, Failing

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Death Of The Heart”, p.163, Random House

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• Give the devil his due.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Revenge, Giving, Devil

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.96, Wordsworth Editions

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• Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

  Thomas Overbury

  Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Absence, Absence Love

  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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• It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

  Seneca the Younger

  Together, Benefits, Letters

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• I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Moving, Thinking, Law

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1896). “The Art of Controversy: And Other Posthumous Papers”

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• And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.

  Elvis Costello

  Drinking, Heart, Comedian

  Song: The Comedians, Album: Goodbye Cruel World, 1984

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• Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.

  Aaron Hill

  Distance, Writing, Mean

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• How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe.

  Stephen King

  Morning, Believe, Simple

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  People, Absence, Absence Love

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• So use all that is called fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all and lose all, as her wheel rolls... A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

  Pat Tillman

  Believe, Recovery, Good Day

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