Absence Quotes
Most popular absence quotes
![Absence is what the poets call death in love. - Joseph Addison quote.](/img/q/29/25029A-absence-is-what-the-poets-call-death-love-joseph-addison.png)
Absence is what the poets call death in love.
Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.
![The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. - Elizabeth Bowen quote.](/img/q/31/25031A-the-heart-may-think-it-knows-better-senses-know-that-elizabeth-bowen.png)
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out.
![Absence, that common cure of love. - Cervantes quote.](/img/q/32/25032A-absence-that-common-cure-of-love-cervantes.png)
Absence, that common cure of love.
![Absence from whom we love is worse than death,
And frustrates hope severer than despair. - William Cowper quote.](/img/q/33/25033A-absence-from-whom-we-love-is-worse-than-death-frustrates-william-cowper.png)
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, And frustrates hope severer than despair.
![Can flowers but droop in absence of the sun,
Which waked their sweets? - John Dryden quote.](/img/q/34/25034A-can-flowers-but-droop-in-absence-sun-which-waked-their-john-dryden.png)
Can flowers but droop in absence of the sun, Which waked their sweets?
![When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. - Kahlil Gibran quote.](/img/q/35/25035A-when-you-part-from-your-friend-you-grieve-not-that-kahlil-gibran.png)
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
![Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. - Samuel Johnson quote.](/img/q/36/25036A-friendship-like-love-is-destroyed-by-long-absence-though-it-samuel-johnson.png)
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
![Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. - Alphonse de Lamartine quote.](/img/q/37/25037A-sometimes-when-one-person-is-missing-whole-world-seems-depopulated-alphonse-de-lamartine.png)
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
![Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire. - François de La Rochefoucauld quote.](/img/q/38/25038A-absence-lessens-the-minor-passions-and-increases-great-ones-as-francois-de-la-rochefoucauld.png)
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.
![When you're gone, all the colors fade
When you're gone, no New Year's Parade
You're gone, colors seem to fade. - Amos Lee quote.](/img/q/39/25039A-when-youre-gone-all-the-colors-fade-when-youre-gone-amos-lee.png)
When you're gone, all the colors fade When you're gone, no New Year's Parade You're gone, colors seem to fade.
Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
![The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/41/25041A-the-longest-absence-is-less-perilous-love-than-terrible-trials-ouida.png)
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
![It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence. - Diane de Poitiers quote.](/img/q/42/25042A-it-is-only-love-that-has-already-fallen-sick-that-diane-de-poitiers.png)
It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
Judicious absence is a weapon.
![How like a Winter hath my absence been
From thee. - William Shakespeare quote.](/img/q/46/25046A-how-like-a-winter-hath-my-absence-been-from-thee-william-shakespeare.png)
How like a Winter hath my absence been From thee.
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
![Absence is death, or worse, to them that love. - Sir Philip Sidney quote.](/img/q/48/25048A-absence-is-death-or-worse-to-them-that-love-sir-philip-sidney.png)
Absence is death, or worse, to them that love.
![Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the day-time, and falling into at night. - Edna St. Vincent Millay quote.](/img/q/49/25049A-where-you-used-to-be-there-is-hole-world-which-edna-st-vincent-millay.png)
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the day-time, and falling into at night.
![Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to do it rightly is an art like any other. - Freya Stark quote.](/img/q/50/25050A-absence-is-one-of-the-most-useful-ingredients-family-life-freya-stark.png)
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to do it rightly is an art like any other.