Main menu  Home  Categories  Authors  Quote of the Day  Contacts  Site map Recommend to visit Quotations by category » Absence Quotes: 1 - 20 of 33 Pages: 1 2 Next Last A short absence is safest Ovid Absence - that common cure of love. Lord Byron Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. Theodore Roosevelt Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. Ambrose Bierce Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire François de la Rochefoucauld Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. William Shakespeare Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire. François de la Rochefoucauld Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. William Shakespeare Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair William Cowper Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. William Cowper Absence of proof is not proof of absence. William Cowper Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. Benjamin Franklin Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires. François de la Rochefoucauld Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. Robert Louis Stevenson Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear Mark Twain Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away. William Shakespeare Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions Samuel Johnson How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! William Shakespeare I dote on his very absence. William Shakespeare Quotes: 1 - 20 of 33 Pages: 1 2 Next Last All quotations are property and copyright of their authors © 2006-2012, Land of Wisdom