Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Benjamin Frankilin

The longest absence is less perious to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Ouida

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

Is not absence death to those who love?
Alexander Pope

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to do it rightly is an art like any other.
Freya Stark

Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse Marie Lamartine

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.
Heloise

The heart may think it knows better; the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Elizabeth Bowen

Absence makes the heart go wander.
betsy Barr

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

Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
Francois de La Rochefould