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Absence Quotes and Quotations

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

- Tacitus

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Ouida

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

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

- La Rochefoucauld

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

- Colette

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

The absent are always wrong.

- English proverb

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

- Bible

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

- Homer

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

- Propertius