Love Quote by Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

“Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.”

— Francois De La Rochefoucault

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire, it extinguishes the small, it ignites the great.”

— Roger de Rabutin comte de Bussy

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

— Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

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

— Audrey Niffenegger

“Never fear Love's absence in your life, because it already exists within you, in great abundance.”

— Eleesha

“Absence is a curious thing. When friends are absent, they seem to loom ever larger, till the lack of them is all one can…

— Libba Bray

“Absence might make the heart grow fonder,' 'I don't think that's possible ... You have no idea how much I love you.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“Absence feeds affection.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Love doesn't spurt up like an instant bonfire, consuming all reason, it flickers and falters, and sometimes almost goes out. The fact that it…

— V.C. Andrews

“It's hard being left behind...It's hard to be the one who stays...Why is love intensified by absence?”

— Audrey Niffenegger

“There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all.”

— Yann Martel

“Why is love intensified by absence? Long ago, men went to sea and women wait for them, standing on the edge of the water,…

— Audrey Niffenegger