Absence Quotes | Wise Sayings about Longing & Separation

Sometimes it’s better to move on than to hold on to a person who doesn’t understand you. Sometimes your absence will teach what your presence cannot.

Happiness blooms in the presence of self-respect,and the absence of ego.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One of the best feelings in the world is knowing that your presence and absence both mean something to someone.

Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don’t strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.

Life is ironic. It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.

Give the gift of your absence to those who do not appreciate your presence .

I act like your absence doesn’t bother me at all, but it’s killing me inside.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

If someone doesn’t appreciate your presence, make them appreciate your absence.

Anyone who has lost a loved one knows that you don’t recover. Instead, you learn to incorporate their absence and memories into your life and channel your emotional energy toward others, and eventually, your grief will walk beside you instead of consuming you.

Does absence make the heart grow fonder. Or more comfortable with the absence?

Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
– Richard Bach

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Strive not to make your presence noticed, but your absence felt.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
– Francois de la Rouchefoucauld

Always make your absence felt, in such a way that somebody misses you, but let not your absence be so long that somebody starts learning to live without you.

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

Give the gift of absence to those who do no appreciate your presence.

Your absence around me reminds me of your presence inside me.

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

Absence is not always a physical thing. You can be absent from the life of who is sitting right next to you.

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

If your presence can’t add value to my life, your absence will make no difference either.

If your presence didn’t make an impact, your absence won’t make a difference.

Absence is a test of love, revealing who truly cares and who was just there for convenience.

Absence is the enemy of love.

If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.
– Will Smith

Faith is your guide in the absence of knowledge.
– Toba Beta

Your absence been has so long that your presence doesn’t matter anymore.

Out of sight, out of mind.

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

You can decorate absence however you want – but you’re still gonna feel what’s missing.
– Siobhan Vivian

The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of truth.
– Anuj Somany

I let you miss me sometimes but my absence should not be so long that you learn to live without me.

What’s painful is not the absence of what we always wanted. But the presence of what we couldn’t have.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
– Theodore Roosevelt

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
– William Cowper

Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but presence makes the bond stronger.

Absence is not forever, but it teaches us to cherish the moments we have and make the most of them.

Absence is a silent teacher, teaching us to appreciate what we have and value what we miss.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
– Dorothy L. Sayers

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
– Pablo Neruda

A person of pleasing manners will be remembered in his absence.

Deeply in love with you, I feel the keen pain of your absence.
– Laura Ramirez

A person that does not appreciate your presence hardly notice your absence.

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 Richter

Absence – that common cure of love.
– Lord Byron

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
– James Matthew Barrie

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
– Dr Carl Saga

The absent are always in the wrong.

Absence is the price we pay for true connection. The distance is worth the closeness we gain.

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

Absence is not an ending, but a pause. It allows us to reflect, rejuvenate, and return stronger.

Absence is not a loss, but a gain. It allows us to understand the true value of what we have.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.
– Ashleigh Brilliant

A short absence is safest.
– Ovid

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.

I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.
– William Shakespeare

But the absence of tears wasn’t the same as an absence of feeling.
– Lisa Kleypas

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
– Thomas a Kempis

It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
– John Steinbeck

There is a hole in the heart called absence. You live in it my dear.
– Malak El Halabi

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
– Salman Rushdie

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.
– Jeff Buckley

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
– Charles Reade

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
– Ben Jonson

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

His cruelty was in his absence.
– Alice Sebold

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
– Ally Condie

Boredom is simply the absence of an interesting perspective.
– Brandon A. Trean

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
– Charles Lamb

Security is not the absence of danger,but the presence of God,no matter what the danger.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
– Simone Weil

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