Paulo Coelho Quotes

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

The game isn't the same when we're apart.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.

Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other .

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

I miss you." "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning." "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

The return makes one love the farewell.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

I was in a long-distance relationship. There's a lot of heartache in distance, and in proximity - those ideas you have when you're next to someone who you haven't seen in a month.

You don't fully appreciate your band until you're away from them.

Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.