Victor Hugo Quotes

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.

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'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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

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

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.

Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.

Since I can't be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again.

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

For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.

Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.

I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

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

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