Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Absence - that common cure of love.
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.