Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder Quotes

• Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

  William Shakespeare

  Distance, Blow, Fuel

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• Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Love, Women, Distance

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Heart, Forget, Absence

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Relationship, Lonely

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

  Ray Charles

  Rain, Heart, Sadness

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• Absence - that common cure of love.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Funny, Epic

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• Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

  Thomas Overbury

  Absence, Absent Friends, Absence Love

  Thomas Overbury (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, now first collected: Edited with notes, and a biograph. account of the author by E. F. Rimbault”, p.190

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• I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Ally Carter

  Heart, Mean, Different

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

  James M. Barrie

  Heart, Absence, Forgetful

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• Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

  John Dryden

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.196

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• Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

  Leo Rosten

  Philosophical, Heart, Sight

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• I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Heart, Thinking, Get Better

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

  Simone Elkeles

  Long Distance Relationship, Heart, Long Relationship

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Alaska, Mind Your Own Business, Misunderstood

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

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