Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

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

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

It's been the toughest week of my life, not touching you. Not talking to you. Waiting to see what you were going to do." He kissed her again, a warm, damp touch of lips, exquisitely controlled. "But it doesn't matter whether you stay or go. I'll still need you. So if you want to go off to Boston, Ill wait. Right here, whenever you need me.

No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?

A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.

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

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.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)