absence quotes
absence quotes
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley
Never find fault with the absent.
Alexander Pope
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Ambrose Bierce
If someone doesn’t appreciate your presence, make them appreciate your absence.
Anonymous
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
Anthony Trollope
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Benjamin Franklin
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Francois de la Rouchefoucauld
There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, […]
Helen Macdonald
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry A. Kissinger
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
Isaac Newton
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
Jodi Picoult
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
John Steinbeck
But the absence of tears wasn’t the same as an absence of feeling.
Lisa Kleypas
Absence – that common cure of love.
Lord Byron
The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
Oscar Wilde
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Ouida
A short absence is the safest.
Ovid
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
Pablo Neruda
The absence of happiness doesn’t mean unhappiness.
Praveen Sighal
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
Roger de Rabutin de Bussy
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Roger de Rabutin
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Salman Rushdie
You can decorate absence however you want- but your still gonna feel what’s missing.
Siobhan Vivian
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Tacitus
Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt
Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Thomas a Kempis
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Don’t struggle to make your presence noticed. Just make your absence felt.
Tinku Razoria
Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
William Cowper
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
William Cowper
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
William Shakespeare