But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord ByronRead
Absence - that common cure of love.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Absence often helps people heal from love, making them appreciate their feelings more.
In this quote, Lord Byron suggests that absence can serve as a remedy for love's pains, allowing individuals time to reflect and find clarity in their emotions. When lovers are apart, the distance can highlight their feelings and make them realize the value of their love, ultimately leading to growth whether apart or together.
Themes
AbsenceLoveHealingReflectionDistance
In practice
Example use cases
In a romantic letter where one partner is traveling and wishes to convey their feelings of longing.
More from Lord Byron
All quotes βIt is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
Lord ByronRead
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
Lord ByronRead
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Lord ByronRead
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Lord ByronRead
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord ByronRead
Similar quotes
If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?
Alain De BottonRead
Wouldst thou learn thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Learn it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love. Wherefore shewed it He? For Love. Hold thee therein and thou shalt learn and know more in the same. But thou shalt never know nor learn therein other thing without end. Thus was I learned that Love was our Lord's meaning.
Julian Of NorwichRead
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.
Emily DickinsonRead
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.
Leo TolstoyRead