A Quote by Andrew Solomon

Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
American - Writer

People always say to me, 'Well, how can a marriage last when you're away as much as you are?' And I always say, 'Well, absence makes the heart grow fonder.' That time apart from each other has actually strengthened our relationship.

Mike Portnoy

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

Elizabeth Ashley

Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence of confidence. Love is the absence of doubt. Hate is the absence of peace. Fear is the absence of faith. Life is the absence of death.

Jess Bowen

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

Ray Charles

Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.

Amy Dickinson

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

Stephen King

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes, taking a break and going somewhere else and, almost, for both parties, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Edge

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

James M. Barrie

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

Judith Viorst

There is no such thing as experience here. You seem to know, you imagine. Imagination must come to an end...I don't know how to put it. The absence of imagination, the absence of will, the absence of effort, the absence of all movement in any direction, on any level, in any dimension - THAT is the thing. That is a thing that cannot be experienced at all. It is not an experience.

U.G. Krishnamurti

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Bonnie Raitt

I wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times about the amazing effect of shared wonder - how I have an audience filled with people who you'd think would hate each other, people from every religious category, all at the same show at the same time. And it's an amazing phenomenon to watch this shared sense of wonder, where these people who really don't like each other - for good and bad reasons, reasons that make sense and that don't make sense - are in the same room, experiencing this unification.

David Copperfield

That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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