Absence Quotes

• "Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare the well !"
  By: Thomas H Bayly
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• "Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (bk. III, ch. 76), from the funeral of Junia
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• "Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence."
  By: John Russell (1), in an address to the Electors of the City of London
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• "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]"
  By: Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegioe (II, 19, 32)
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• "Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.]"
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes (276)
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• "But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a mente.]"
  By: Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ (bk. I, ch. XXIII, 1)
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• "n my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me."
  By: Joseph Addison
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• "Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence."
  By: Ashleigh Brilliant
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• "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."
  By: Unknown
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• "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!"
  By: Francis Thompson, A Carrier Song
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• "'Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot."
  By: Frederick William Thomas, Absence Conquers Love
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• "Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (bk. III, ch. 76), from the funeral of Junia
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• "Conspicuous by his absence."
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
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• "All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me."
  By: William Shakespeare, Sonnet XLIII
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• "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!"
  By: William Shakespeare, Sonnet XCVII
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• "I have this while with leaden, thoughts been press'd; But I shall, in a more continuate time, Strike off this score of absence."
  By: William Shakespeare, Othello
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