Your Absence Quotes

• 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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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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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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• i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

  James Dashner

  Love, Break Up, Running

  James Dashner (2015). “The Scorch Trials Movie Tie-in Edition (Maze Runner, Book Two)”, p.35, Delacorte Press

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• As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

  Alcibiades

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

  George Fetherling

  Relationship, Wall, Distance

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• Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

  William Cowper

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne”, p.28

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• Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Sarcastic, Wisdom

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• 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

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  "Day of Absence". Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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  I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

  William Shakespeare

  I Miss You, Missing You, Dream

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 43.

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• In the hope to meet
  Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.706

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

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• Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

  W. S. Merwin

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  William Stanley Merwin, “Separation”

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• Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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• Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream,
  And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

  George Linley

  I Miss You, Missing You, Beautiful

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
  My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;
  Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
  And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Missing You, Goodbye, Missing Someone

  'The Traveller' (1764) l. 7

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• Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, What Matters, Absence

  1981 Midnight's Children,'Alpha and Omega', bk.2.

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• 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?

  Fanny Kemble

  I Miss You, Missing You, Letting Go

  Fanny Kemble (1844). “Poems”, p.129

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• Your absence has gone through me

  W. S. Merwin

  Missing You, Gone, Absence

  William Stanley Merwin, “Separation”

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