“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
“People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they’re wrong: Proximity makes the heart grow fonder.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
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“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes.
II, xxxiii, 43.
Elegies
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder:
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!”
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.”
Letter to Arthur Moore (February 1899).
“I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in… It broke.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper