Absence from those we love is self from self—a deadly banishment. — Shakespeare
Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it. — Mirabeau
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. — Dryden
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. — Hannah More
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. — Charles Reade
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Thomas Haynes Bayly
Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. — Fielding
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realise the intervening changes which time may have effected. — Goldsmith
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. — Benjamin Franklin
The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? — Rowe
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. — Mrs Jameson
