Quotes for All
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. Elizabeth Bowen
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. Elizabeth Bowen
We have really no absent friends. Elizabeth Bowen
Absence makes the heart grow fonder Eleanor Roosevelt
I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me. I wrestled for absent friends, for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes of poor souls, and for many that I thought were the children of God, in many distant places. … Read more
I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, “Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves … Read more
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. Ambrose Bierce
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? Richard Bach
Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store; The absent friends remembered be, in all that’s sung or said, And Love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead. Albert Pike
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson