A Quote by Thomas Overbury

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Overbury

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Absence Doth Love Presence Sharpen

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Thomas Overbury
English - Poet
1581 - 1613

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

William Shakespeare

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Fuller

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

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

William Shakespeare

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

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

In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Mark Epstein

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

John Donne

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

Rita Zahara

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.