Absence

(358 votes)   No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(352 votes)   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
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(317 votes)   The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(315 votes)   Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(308 votes)   Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(281 votes)   Absence -- that common cure of love.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(280 votes)   When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

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(276 votes)   Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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(261 votes)   The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Elizabeth Bowen
1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

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(259 votes)   Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892-1950, American Poet

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(255 votes)   Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Helen Rowland
1875-1950, American Journalist

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(253 votes)   Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Sir Matthew Hale
1609-1676, British Judge

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(232 votes)   A short absence is the safest.

Ovid
BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet

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(231 votes)   When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(228 votes)   The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Ouida
1838-1908, British Writer

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