The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
The absence of what love, however short, is always too long.[Et l’absence de ce qu’on aime, Quelque peu qu’elle dure, a toujours trop duré.]
Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
In the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.
I dote on his very absence.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Absence, that common cure of love.[translation by John Willis Clark]
Absence weakness lukewarm feelings but intensified great ones, as wind snuffs out candles but feeds fire.[L’absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu.]
Absence is the highest form of presence.[L’assenza e la forma più alta della presenza.]
