"'It is never good dwelling on good-byes,' she said, 'it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.'" - Elizabeth Bibesco, The Fir and the Palm

"The absent are always in the wrong." - Destouches, L'Obstacle imprévu

"Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age." - John Dryden, Amphitryon

"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse." - Benjamin Franklin

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder,
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!"
- THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY, Isle of Beauty

"Among absent lovers, ardour always fares better." - Sextus Propertius, Elegies

"Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great." - ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN, Histoire amoureuse des Gaules

"Absence, that common cure of love." - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote de la Mancha

"Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age." - JOHN DRYDEN, Amphitryon