Absence Quotes and Sayings
A collection of quotes on absence, that I like.
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear” ~Mark Twain
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death.~” William Cowper
“Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!”~ Francis Kazincy
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.” ~ Ambrose Redmoon
“Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.”~ Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
“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
“Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.”~ Lord George Gordon Noel Byron
“Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.”~ William Shakespeare
“Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.” ~ Elizabeth Ashley
” Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!”~Thomas Haynes Bayly
“Absence, that common cure of love.”~ Miguel de Cervantes (or was it Lord Byron?)
“All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.”~ William Shakespeare
