Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder Quotes:

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

- Umberto Eco

source: Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Love, Inspirational, Relationship, Long Relationship, Inspirational Long Distance

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Distance, Blow, Fuel, Absence Love, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

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

- Elizabeth Ashley

source: Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

topic: Distance, Heart, Blood, Absence Love, Absence Makes The Heart

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

topic: Heart, Forget, Absence, Absence Makes The Heart, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Love, Relationship, Lonely, Long Relationship, Inspirational Long Distance

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

- Ray Charles

topic: Rain, Sadness, Heart, Absence Makes The Heart, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

Absence - that common cure of love.

- Lord Byron

topic: Love, Funny, Epic, Absence Love, Absence Makes The Heart

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

- Thomas Overbury

source: Thomas Overbury (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, now first collected: Edited with notes, and a biograph. account of the author by E. F. Rimbault”, p.190

topic: Absence, Absence Love, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Absent Friends

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

- Ally Carter

topic: Heart, Mean, Different, Antony, Miles Apart

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Heart, Absence, Forgetful, Absence Makes The Heart, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

- John Dryden

topic: I Miss You, Missing You, Years, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

- Leo Rosten

topic: Philosophical, Heart, Sight, Of Sight Out Of Mind, Absence Makes The Heart

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

- Bonnie Raitt

topic: Heart, Thinking, Get Better, Absence Makes The Heart, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

- Simone Elkeles

source: "Brendan Fehr Talks THE NIGHT SHIFT, Research for the Role, ROSWELL 15th Anniversary, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2014.

topic: Long Distance Relationship, Heart, Chemistry, Long Relationship, Inspirational Long Distance Relationship

Good fences make good neighbors.

- Robert Frost

topic: Misunderstood, Neighbor, Fence, Minding My Own Business, Mending

actions speak louder than words

- Becca Fitzpatrick

source: Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom, Broken Promises, Influencing People

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You, I Missed You, Someone You Miss