Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulat — Absence

"Greater things are believed of those who are absent."

"Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derbys] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence."

"Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrows dark array,— Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away."

"How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old Decembers bareness everywhere."

"Achilles absent, was Achilles still."

"Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream."