“Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.”

“Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.”

“When I came back to Dublin, I was courtmartialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

“It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.”

“It was the sort of atmosphere of good humor which so often accompanies a total absence of good taste.”

“But it isn’t absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain. For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is, in the end, something good and even beautiful, because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.”

“Love is the absence of Anxiety.”

“Nothing is more remarkable in the Bible than the absence of argument…Argument is internal continuity. So is logical sequence in narrative: in the Bible the connectives are just "and."”

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

“Absence, that common cure of love.”