Absence

10 quotes.

• Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

• Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

• The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

  Benjamin Franklin

• Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.

  Duc de La Rochefoucauld

• Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

  Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

• Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.

  Anonymous

• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

  Chuang-tzu

• No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

  Anonymous

• Sometimes I need what only you can provide - Your absence.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

• The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

  Henry Kissinger

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