Generally that statement refers to something like a boy friend takes a trip and is gone for 2 months and you start to miss him and your heart burns more for them because they are important to you.
It means that when two people who care about each other are apart (absent from each other), they begin to miss each other and realize how much that person means to them.
It can also be compared to that old adage, "You never miss the water till the well runs dry", which is also true. It means you don't appreciate what (or who) you have until you've lost it (or them).
The cliche is "Absence makes the heart grow fonder."
"Absence", it is said, "makes your heart grow fonder."
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
First of all, it's "Absence makes the heart grow fonder." Second, it means that lackk of being with someone makes you miss them and in turn makes you appreciate them.
Vicki agreed with the old saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder. The word absence is a noun that means the state of not being present.
Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder was created on 2007-09-17.
Noplace. This is not a quote from Romeo and Juliet. It was said by the Roman poet Sextus Propertius.
Distance Only Makes the Heart Grow Fonder was created on 2002-11-05.
I think that if it's true love, it can resist to distance However, a feeble love does not stand a chance Absence makes the heart grow fonder, for friendship Absence can also break a heart But I believe that true love survives anything
The Red Skelton Show - 1951 Absence Makes the Hate Grow Fonder 16-19 was released on: USA: 24 January 1967
Absence does not really make the heart grow fonder. Absence usually makes people forget the bad quicker than the good. People forget why they broke up and wanted nothing to do with each other ever again. Still, as soon as people leave high school and go off to college, they usually break up with their high school sweethearts for someone else. So, unless there has been serious trauma, they usually forget or repress the bad and keep the good memories.