"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

Unknown, Source | Accuracy | 5 bookmarks

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent | Absence | 18 bookmarks

"Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love."

Proverb | Absence | 1 bookmarks

"How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!"

Shakespeare, William | Absence | 9 bookmarks

"When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley | Absence | 5 bookmarks

"Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance."

Benjamin, Walter | Absence | 3 bookmarks

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

Cibber, Colley | Absence | 4 bookmarks

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

Fuller, Thomas | Absence | 10 bookmarks

"Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation."

Hugo, Victor | Absence | 6 bookmarks

"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De | Absence | 10 bookmarks