Absence Quotes
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it rekindles the great.
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin




Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Franois de La Rouchefoucauld




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




Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire
Duc de la Rouchefoucauld




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.
Goncourt




Love reckons hours for months, and das for years; And every little absence is an age
John Dryden, Amphitryon




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.
Goncourt




Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!
Thomas Bayly




Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear




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




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




The absence of war is not peace.




The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence
Shelagh Delaney




Absence makes the heart grow fonder.




The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.




Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?




Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes
Hannah Moore




Absence makes the heart grow wander




Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
Freya Stark




Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
Edwin C Bliss




You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.




It is remarkable that great affectation and great absence of it (unconsciousness) are at first sight very similar; they are both apt to produce singularity
Archbishop Richard Whately




Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.
Nick Rahall




The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.




Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.







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