Absence Quotes

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great."

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

Thomas Haynes Bayly

"Nothing can make up for the absence of someone whom we love."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

"May you know that absence is full of tender presence and that nothing is ever lost or forgotten."

John O'Donohue

"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire."

François de La Rochefoucauld

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

Thomas Fuller

"Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age."

John Dryden

"Absence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment."