7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.

— Jasper Fforde

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

— La Rochefoucauld

Absence is more, thorny on the soul, than however dulcet, presence can be. Apparently, I have missed you, more than, I have ever loved you.

— Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.

— Roland Barthes

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

— Roger de Rabutin de Bussy

Absencelooks like a lake bed flooded with sky sounds like cotton howling tastes like tear-stained pillows smells like churning bile and burnt hair feels like screaming agony, my heart dying and dying

— Beth Morey

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Absent in body but present in spirit.

— Bible

Achievement is not possible in the absence of Zeal.

— Kishore Bansal