“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes.
Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet
II, xxxiii, 43.
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“Absence makes the heart grow fonder:
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!”
Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839) English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer
Isle of Beauty, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I find that absence still increases love", Charles Hopkins, To C. C.; "Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it", Howell, Familiar Letters, book i. sect. i. No. 6.
“I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) English writer
Letter to Arthur Moore (February 1899).
“What's at the heart of all sales and marketing: creating demand even in the absence of logic.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p.169
“I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.”
Roland Barthes book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
