Absent Friends Quotes - Page 2

• The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Long Distance Relationship, Heart, Thinking

  Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 2, ch. 2

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• Never speak ill of an absent friend.

  Plautus

  Friends, Speak, Absent Mindedness

  Plautus (2007). “The Rope and Other Plays”, p.182, Penguin UK

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• Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her indentifies with all that darkness.

  Steve Martin

  Lonely, Book, Heart

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• The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Laughter, Heart

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• We have really no absent friends.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Absence, Absent

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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