Absence Quote by William Shakespeare

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

— Thomas Overbury

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

— Anonymous

Absence does for love what the wind does for a flame: it extinguishes the weak, and feeds the strong.

— Anonymous

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Absence is the enemy of love

— Proverb

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

— John Donne

Why is love intensified by absence?

— Audrey Niffenegger

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

— Hannah More

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

— Anonymous

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

Absence - that common cure of love.

— Lord Byron