Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Letter, written in collaboration with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, to Jonathan Swift, December 14, 1725.
“Two evils, monstrous either one apart,
Possessed me, and were long and loath at going:
A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart,
And in the wood the furious winter blowing.”
"Winter Remembered", line 1.
Chills and Fevers (1924)
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François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
L'absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu.
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Variant translation: Absence weakens the minor passions and adds to the effects of great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
Maxim 276.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.”
Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads
Stanza 4.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)
Context: If I should be, where I no more can hear
Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes these gleams
Of past existence, wilt thou then forget
That on the banks of this delightful stream
We stood together; And that I, so long
A worshipper of Nature, hither came,
Unwearied in that service: rather say
With warmer love, oh! with far deeper zeal
Of holier love. Now wilt thou then forget,
That after many wanderings, many years
Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs,
And this green pastoral landscape, were to me
More dear, both for themselves, and for thy sake.
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes.
Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet
II, xxxiii, 43.
Elegies
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
Emily St. John Mandel book Station Eleven
Source: Station Eleven (2014), Chapter 23 (p. 144)
