- Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. – Pablo Neruda
- The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. – Benjamin Franklin
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder. – Thomas Haynes Bayly
If someone doesn’t appreciate your presence, make them appreciate your absence. – Unknown
- Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. – Benjamin Franklin
- Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence. – Jodi Picoult
- Absence and death are the same, only that in death there is no suffering. – Theodore Roosevelt
- But the absence of tears wasn’t the same as an absence of feeling. – Lisa Kleypas
- Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. – Francois de la Rouchefoucauld
- The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. – Charles Reade
- The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. – Benjamin Franklin
- Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. – Unknown
- Don’t struggle to make your presence noticed. Just make your absence felt. – Tinku Razoria
- Absence of proof is not proof of absence. – William Cowper
- The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. – Ouida
- Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. – Ambrose Bierce
- When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. – Thomas a Kempis
- Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. – Salman Rushdie
- The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. – Henry A. Kissinger
- Absence from whom we love is worse than death. – William Cowper
- Absence – that common cure of love. – Lord Byron
- Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless. – Anthony Trollope
- The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable. – Oscar Wilde
- Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours. – Rumi
- Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. – Roger de Rabutin
- It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. – John Steinbeck
- Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. – William Shakespeare
- Sometimes I need what only you can provide! your absence. – Unknown
- In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence. – Isaac Newton
- In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. – Aleister Crowley
- You can decorate absence however you want- but your still gonna feel what’s missing. – Siobhan Vivian
- Boredom is simply the absence of an interesting perspective. – Brandon A. Trean
- A short absence is the safest. – Ovid
- Happiness blooms in the presence of self-respect,and the absence of ego. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- Greater things are believed of those who are absent. – Tacitus
- Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. – Carl Sagan
- Never find fault with the absent. – Alexander Pope
- The absence of justice anywhere is the presence of injustice everywhere. – Sunday Adelaja
- The absence of happiness doesn’t mean unhappiness. – Praveen Sighal