Quotes About Absence Of Friends

#1. Sometimes, the truth comes out slow.

Matthew Desmond

#2. Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

Joan Jett

#3. We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

Gerald Brenan

#4. Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.

Marguerite Gardiner

#5. We have really no absent friends.

Elizabeth Bowen

#6. If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

Heloise D'Argenteuil

#7. Gratitude is the highest form of happiness, vibration-energy at its highest level.

Susan Edwards

#8. Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!

Rumi

#9. At least she'd finally figured out why the green leggings she wore were called tights. It was because they were tight. Extremely tight. So very tight that she felt like a sausage about to split open on a blazing hot barbecue grill.

Joanne Fluke

#10. There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind ... there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Bertrand Russell

#11. There is an unspoken pact between best friends that stipulates the following:
To induce laughter, all you have to do is look at your partner-in-crime - even in the absence of said crime.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#12. Remembering to live by forgetting all the places where I died.

Jenim Dibie

#13. Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Ambrose Bierce

#14. I'm fit and I'm angry, and I'm obviously crazy. Anything could happen.

Scott Lynch

#15. But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert
and their absence keeps us grateful.

T.A. Barron

#17. Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

Amber Riley

#18. It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

Oscar Wilde

#19. A true friend is so great an advantage, even for the greatest lords, in order that he may speak well of them, and back them in their absence, that they should do all to have one.

Blaise Pascal

#20. The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.

Elizabeth Bowen

#21. Thank you, thank you very much.

Charlaine Harris

#22. I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

Jon Ronson

#23. Everyone was getting married or falling in love. I was happy for them. Happy, happy, happy. I pasted a smile on my face and went to Piggly Wiggly.

Charlaine Harris

#24. Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

Erma Bombeck

#25. I have always looked up to my brothers. They are a huge influence on me. We constantly text and Facebook each other to give each other support. And we all hang out at home when we are in town together.

Lexi Thompson

#26. The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

Miranda July

#27. Expressing gratitude for the abundance that we have in our life make us feel rich.

Debasish Mridha

#28. How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

Walter Savage Landor

#29. But he and his friends have no children, and in their absence, the world sprawls before them, almost stifling in its possibilities.

Hanya Yanagihara

#30. Christy has not been given a fair shake. She has not been identified as a competent premier,

Jim Shepard

#31. The thought of friends or family enjoying themselves in my absence gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Connor Franta

#32. The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.

Bokar Rinpoche

#33. Absence is a curious thing. When friends are absent they seem to loom ever larger, till the lack of them is all one can feel.

Libba Bray