Absence Quotes and Sayings

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear – Ambrose Redmoon

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace -
Anne Shaw.

Absence makes thy heart grow fonder – of somebody; else – Anonymous.

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

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great – Comte DeBussy-Rabutin.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence – Dorothy Thompson.

The absence of war is not peace – Harry S Truman.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously – Henry Kissinger.

Absence – that common cure of love – Lord Byron.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Absence, that common cure of love – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate – Robert Louis Stevenson.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?? – Saint Augustine.

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

Absence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment – William Shakespeare.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow’s dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away – William Shakespeare.

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


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