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
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
- La Rochefoucauld
Absent in body, but present in spirit.
- Bible
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
- Ouida
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
- Tacitus
The absent are always wrong.
- English proverb
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
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
