Absent Quotes

‘Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I’ve tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

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

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

Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?

Absence makes the heart grow wander.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.