"Absence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment." ― William Shakespeare Topic(s): Love Tags: absence, those More From William Shakespeare "An overflow of good converts to bad." "God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." "O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!" More In Love "Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things."― E. M. Forster "A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy."― George Jean Nathan "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."― Henry David Thoreau