Absence

"They say absence makes the heart grow fungus."

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

"No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea."

"ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another."

"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends."

"Wives in their husband's absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler."

"Absence! is not the soul torn by it From more than light, or life, or breath? 'Tis Lethe's gloom, but not its quiet,— The pain without the peace of death!"

"Friends, though absent, are still present."

"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."

"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse."

"Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain."

"Achilles absent, was Achilles still."

"In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet."

"[...] in certain cases absence is the highest form of presence."

"Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a mente."

"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."

"Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it."

"… absence is The moonlight of affection;"

"Absence and death are the same—only that in death there is no suffering."

"With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence—o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!"

"Absent in body, but present in spirit."

"Absentes tinnitu aurium præsentire sermones de se receptum est."

"Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes."

"Say, is not absence death to those who love?"

"Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more."

"Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit."

"The absent are like children; they are helpless to defend themselves."

"L'absence diminue les médiocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu."

"I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure."

"As 'tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home."

"Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate."

"Greater things are believed of those who are absent."

"Conspicuous by his absence."

"'Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot."

"Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!"

"What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?"

"For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord."

"Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by."

"Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream."

"For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw; There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa."

"Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,— Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away."

"Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence."

"All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me."

"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."

"The absence of lost things is felt most painfully when the things you possess stop providing satisfaction."

"Præfulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur."

"Since you have waned from us, Fairest of women! I am a darkened cage Songs cannot hymn in. My songs have followed you, Like birds the summer; Ah! bring them back to me, Swiftly, dear comer! Seraphim, Her to hymn, Might leave their portals; And at my feet learn The harping of mortals!"

"The absent are always in the wrong."

"The absent shall not be made heir."

"They are good that are away."