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AbsenceFound 20 items. Pages: 1 2 >>sort alphabetically | sort by highest rating (143 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (140 votes) Absence -- that common cure of love.Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (137 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (135 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (134 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (131 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (130 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (127 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (122 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (119 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (115 votes) Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.Sir Matthew Hale 1609-1676, British Judge Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (101 votes) The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.Ouida 1838-1908, British Writer Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (100 votes) A short absence is the safest.Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (99 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (99 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website Found 20 items. Pages: 1 2 >> |
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