A Quote by Thomas Fuller

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Fuller

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Love Absence Presence Sharpens

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Thomas Fuller
English - Priest
June 19, 1608 - August 16, 1661

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Overbury

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

William Shakespeare

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

This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When a person disappears, everything becomes impregnated with that person's presence. Every single object as well as every space becomes a reminder of absence, as if absence were more important than presence.

Doris Salcedo

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

Mark Epstein

The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.

Rita Zahara

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Edmund Burke

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Edmund Burke

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.