Absent Friend Quotes

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
- Ambrose Bierce

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
- Elizabeth Bowen

How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe.
- Stephen King

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
- Neil Gaiman

Because when some incident sheds a favorable light on an old and absent friend, that's about as good a gift as chance intends to offer.
- Amor Towles