Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love. – Proverb
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. – Elizabeth Ashley
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin
Woman absent is woman dead. – Ambrose Bierce
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
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. – Elizabeth Bowen
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. – Jean De La Bruyere
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. – Colley Cibber
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. – William Cowper
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. – Thomas Fuller
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. – Johann von Goethe
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. – Sir Matthew Hale
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. – Thomas Kempis
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. – Ouida
