quotations about absence
Absence doesn't always make the heart grow fonder. Sometimes it just teaches us that we can live apart.
MICHAEL FAUDET
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Smoke & Mirrors
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Think not, O thou guide of my youth, that absence can impair my respect, or interposing trackless deserts blot your reverend figure from my memory.... By every remove, I only drag a greater length of chain.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Citizen of the World
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
The Death of the Heart
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I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merchant of Venice
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years;
And every little absence is an age.
JOHN DRYDEN
Amphitryon
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
TACITUS
Histories
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What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE
Absence
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Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
JAMES HOWELL
Familiar Letters
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There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
Her Fearful Symmetry
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