Love & Absence
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
--Thomas Fuller
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
--Thomas Haynes Bayly
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the
blood.
--Elizabeth Ashley
There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused
by the absence of you.
--Ashleigh Brilliant
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small,
it enkindles the great.
--Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel,
the other blows it till it burns clear.
--William Shakespeare
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
--William Shakespeare
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,
Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absence - that common cure of love.
--Lord Byron
Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind
blows out candles and kindles fires.
--François de la Rochefoucauld
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
--Benjamin Franklin
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
--Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little
absence is an age.
--John Dryden
