ABSENCE
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder—of somebody else.—Anonymous
- The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.—Bible: Genesis 31:49
- But ay the tear comes in my ee, To think on him that's far awa.—Burns,
The Bonie Lad That's Far Away
- Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.—Byron, Don Juan
- Absence, that common cure of love.—Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.—Diogenes Laertius
- 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.—Goldsmith, The Traveller
- The rarer seen, the less in mind,
The less in mind, the lesser pain.—Barnabe Googe, Out of Sight, Out of Mind
- Achilles absent, was Achilles still.—Homer, Iliad
- In the hope to meet shortly again, and make our absence sweet.—Ben Jonson, Underwoods
- Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!—Francis Kazinczy, Separation
- What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?—Frances Kemble, Absence
- Presents, I often say, endear absents.—Charles Lamb, A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
- Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.—Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia
- Absence quickens our love and elevates our affections. Absence is the invisible and incorporeal mother o f ideal beauty.—W. S. Landor, Imaginary Conversations
- Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.—La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims
- Absence not long enough to root out quite
All love, increases love at second sight.—Thomas May, Henry II
- 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.—Attr. to W. J. Mickle
- But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone, and never must return!—Milton, Lycidas
- 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 mem'ry, like a drop that, night and day,
Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!—Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh
- A boat at midnight sent alone
To drift upon the moonless sea,
A lute, whose leading chord is gone,
A wounded bird, that hath but one
Imperfect wing to soar upon,
Are like what I am, without thee.—Thomas Moore, Loves of the Angels
- Sweet's the laverock's note and lang,
Lifting wildly up the glen ;
But aye to me he sings ae sang,
Will ye no come back again?—Carolina Oliphant, Will Ye No Come Back Again?
- Absence is the enemy of love.—Proverb
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder.—Proverb
- Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.—Proverb
- Absence cools moderate passions, but inflames violent ones.—Proverb
- There is not one among them but I dote on his very absence.—Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
- How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!—Shakespeare, Sonnet 43
- Greater things are believed of those who are absent.—Tacitus, History
- But O for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!—Tennyson, Break, Break, Break
- She only said, "My life is dreary,
He cometh not," she said:
She said, "I am aweary, aweary,
I would that I were dead!"—Tennyson, Mariana
- 'Tis said that absence conquers love,
But oh! believe it not;
I've tried, alas! its power to prove,
But thou art not forgot.—F. W. THOMAS, Song
- Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.—ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Last Chronicle of Barset
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