Top 33 Quotes About Absent Friends: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Absent Friends

#1. It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

#2. And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.

Elvis Costello

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

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore.
And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store;
The absent friends remembered be, in all that's sung or said,
And Love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead.

Albert Pike

#5. I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

Vincent Van Gogh

#6. We didn't waste one second of that day. We talked about the past. We talked about the future. And we danced. And we sang. And we toasted absent friends, as the stars shone through the night sky, like Amber's last gift.

Matthew Crow

#7. 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

#8. We have really no absent friends.

Elizabeth Bowen

#9. Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.

Aaron Hill

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

Elizabeth Bowen

#11. To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

Neil Gaiman

#12. [T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

George Washington

#13. O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

Homer

#14. I know Simon and I will always be enemies..
But I thought maybe we'd get to a point where we didn't want to be.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

Pat Robertson

#16. We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.

Anneli Rufus

#17. The girl was beautiful, her skin like fresh cream and her long hair so dark it seemed to suck the color out of everything it surrounded. She was small. French women all seemed to be small-boned bird creatures, delicate in a way Eby could never be.

Sarah Addison Allen

#18. I don't eat anything on an airplane.

Masaharu Morimoto

#19. Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?

Virgil

#20. If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

William Hazlitt

#21. Lady Ligeia," he began again, "is a woman in the literature who returns from the dead, taking over another woman's body to be with her true love."
"Oh, yes. Lovely" Isobel blanched. "I guess the other chick didn't mind at all?

Kelly Creagh

#22. Never speak ill of an absent friend.

Plautus

#23. I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.

Henry Earl Singleton

#24. Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

Michael Crichton

#25. Sir, more than kisses,
letters mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.

John Donne

#26. When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

Epictetus

#27. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;-and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not be absent from the chamber which thou sittest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson