Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.
I had no friends. I worried a lot.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.