#absence

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

— Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

#long-distance-love #longing #love #separation #love

Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence? ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#audrey-niffenegger #love #the-time-traveler-s-wife #love

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#loss #light

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#could #death #i #me #said

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#among #cannot #children #common #district

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. ↗

— Ovid

#acquainted #affliction #am #better #does

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#ages #anyway #evidence #middle #middle ages

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#crutches #hours #love #our #wings

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#caress #done #dreams #good #good works

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