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Absent Friends Quotes

Friends, though absent, are still present.

Friends, though absent, are still present.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Absence, Absent Friends
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.181

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Overbury
Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Absence, Absent Friends
Thomas Overbury (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, now first collected: Edited with notes, and a biograph. account of the author by E. F. Rimbault”, p.190

We have really no absent friends.

Elizabeth Bowen
Absence, Absent Friends, Absent
Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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

Ambrose Bierce
People, Absence, Absent Friends

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