Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.
With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.