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~ Absence Quotes ~
« on: January 04, 2016, 01:13:03 PM »
Absence Quotes


Famous Absence quotes by popular authors such as Tacitus, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ouida, Helen Rowland, La Rochefoucauld and others.




[highlight-text]The absent are always wrong.

English Proverb
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Re: ~ Absence Quotes ~
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2016, 01:13:29 PM »
[highlight-text]Parting is such sweet sorrow.

William Shakespeare

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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2016, 01:13:56 PM »
[highlight-text]The absent are easily refuted.

C. S. Lewis

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« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2016, 01:14:21 PM »
[highlight-text]Achilles absent was Achilles still.

Homer

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« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2016, 01:14:45 PM »
[highlight-text]Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2016, 01:15:13 PM »
[highlight-text]Absent in body but present in spirit.

Bible

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« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2016, 01:17:48 PM »
[highlight-text]Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Propertius

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« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2016, 01:18:12 PM »
[highlight-text]Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Tacitus

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« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2016, 01:18:38 PM »
[highlight-text]Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2016, 01:19:05 PM »
[highlight-text]Sometimes when one person is missing the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2016, 01:19:30 PM »
[highlight-text]The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Ouida

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« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2016, 01:19:56 PM »
[highlight-text]Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2016, 01:20:22 PM »
[highlight-text]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

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« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2016, 01:20:49 PM »
[highlight-text]Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

La Rochefoucauld

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« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2016, 01:21:14 PM »
[highlight-text]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