622 Quotes About Absence

Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.

Eternal and forever are just sillySeven-letter words for absence.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

We cannot forget those we love. They shape our lives for ever, by their absence as much as by their presence.

Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

Adam Nicolson has written of the 'powerful absence[s]' that remembered landscapes exert upon us, but they exist as powerful presences too, with which we maintain deep and abiding attachments. These, perhaps, are the landscapes in which we live the longest,warped though they are by time and abraded though they are by distance

ABSENCE, n. That which "makes the heart grow fonder" — of absence. Absence of mind is the cerebral condition essential to success in popular preaching. It is sometimes termed lack of sense.

Someone shouldn't need to be faced with your absence to value your presence.

Distance brings sweetness. Absence tames what is near.