Absence Makes The Heart Quotes

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

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Heart, Forget, Absence

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• 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 makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

  James M. Barrie

  Heart, Absence, Forgetful

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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, 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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

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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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• There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Pain, Love You, Broke Up

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• 'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

  Frederick William Thomas

  Love, Art, Believe

  Frederick William Thomas (1847). “Clinton Bradshaw: Or, The Adventures of a Lawyer. Two Volumes in One”, p.117

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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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• 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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• Absence - that common cure of love.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Funny, Epic

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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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• 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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• Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

  Judith Viorst

  Heart, Frozen, Absence

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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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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