Love & Absence

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow

feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.

–Kay Knudsen

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance

of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

–George Eliot

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small,

it enkindles the great.

–Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

–Edna St Vincent Millay

Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?

–Richard Bach

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

–Khalil Gibran

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it;

the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

–William Shakespeare

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

–Thomas Haynes Bayly

Absence – that common cure of love.

–Lord Byron

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

–Thomas Fuller

The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.

–Edward Thomas

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.

–William Shakespeare

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.

–Author Unknown

There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know.

It’s caused by the absence of you.

–Ashleigh Brilliant

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

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder,

but it sure heats up the blood.

–Elizabeth Ashley

Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones,

as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.

–François de la Rochefoucauld

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

–Benjamin Franklin

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

–Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

What shall I do with all the days and hours

That must be counted ere I see thy face?

How shall I charm the interval that lowers

Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

–Frances Anne Kemble

How like a winter hath my absence been

From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!

What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!

What old December’s bareness everywhere!

–William Shakespeare

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