Quotes on Absence

1. "When I came back to dublin, I was courtmartialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence." -Brendan Behan.

2. "The heart may think it knows better, the senses knows that absence blots people out.
We have really no absent friends." -Elizabeth Bowen.

3. "Partir c'est mourir un peu.
To go away is to die a little." -Edmond Haraucourt.

4. "I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; every thing tastes like chaff in my mouth." - John Keats.



5. "Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones,
as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire." - Duc de la Rochefoucauld.

6. "The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there." - A. A. Milne.

7. "Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence." - Salman Rushdie.

8. "I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia." - Vita Sackville-West.

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