"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?"

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

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

"Conspicuous by his absence."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit."

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

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

"Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes."

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

"Absent in body, but present in spirit."

"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!"

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

"… absence is The moonlight of affection;"

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

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

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

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

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

"Achilles absent, was Achilles still."

"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."

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

"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."

"Friends, though absent, are still present."

"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!"

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

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

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 Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another."

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

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

"They say absence makes the heart grow fungus."

"Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more."

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."

"I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them."

"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."

"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."

"Possunt, quia posse videntur."

"Les méchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de l'habileté dans les bons."

"Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed."

"I think you are gonna find, when it's over... I think you're gonna find yourself one smilin' motherfucker. The thing is Butch, right now, you've got ability. But painful as it may be, ability don't last. And your days are just about over. Now that's a hard motherfuckin' fact of life. But it's a fact of life your ass is gonna hafta get realistic about. See this business is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers. Motherfuckers who thought their ass would age like wine. If you mean it turns to vinegar, it does. If you mean it gets better with age, it don't. Besides Butch, how many fights you think you got left in you anyway? Two? Boxers don't have an 'old timer's day.' You came close, but you never made it, and if you were gonna make it, you woulda made it before now."

"A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations."

"We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole."

"The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes."

"Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."