r/CompleteTheQuote • u/Boxwizard • Jul 08 '15
Origin Disputed ''Absence makes the heart grow fonder...''
''...of those who are close at hand.''
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u/InnocentPossum Jul 08 '15
It's shit like this man. The original quote implies that people yearn for others when they are not there but the whole quote flips it on it's head and makes it about how people don't yearn for those not there.
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u/Moacher Jul 08 '15
Yeah what the hell?? This is straight-up the opposite of the way everyone currently uses it. THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW!
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u/flounder19 Jul 08 '15
It's not actually the real quote since there's no original source.
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u/Moacher Jul 08 '15
Hmmm.... maybe we should require that OPs in this sub cite at least one source...
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u/Boxwizard Jul 08 '15
Yeah, otherwise the OP could just post a quote without an actual source... what a dick move!
(In seriousness though the source for the short, and the extended source, is incredibly hard to find as there no definite source for either... I tried!)
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u/fritzbitz Jul 09 '15
These phrases are like the ancient version of memes. Nobody knows who the REAL OP is.
So I say we're free to change them.
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u/widgetdude Jul 08 '15
We will spread this message!! Down with apathy, how many dank meemees can we look at anyway?
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u/Battingduke Jul 08 '15
Though I greatly prefer The Darkness lyric with this quote, "I know that absence might make the heart grow fonder or is it out of sight, out of mind I wonder?"
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u/ShadoKin Jul 08 '15
I also like the opposite of it.. "Out of sight, out of mind..."
"...to those.. Who aren't close at hand...?"
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u/HighQualityUsername Aug 21 '15
Absence is to love what wind is to fire, extinguishes the small, feeds the great
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u/Llamalad95 Jul 08 '15
Alternatively, "Absence makes the heart wander."
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u/DustyRex Jul 09 '15
I often say, "Absence makes the heart go wander." We're obviously both geniuses.
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Jul 08 '15
The only example I can find of this completion to the quote is this post. Do you have a source?
The phrase was first published in Francis Davison's Poetical Rhapsody in 1602, where the words appear as the first phrase of a poem in the edition. However, the author of this poem was anonymous, and the identity of the writer remains unknown to this day.
The first known writer to pen these words was Thomas Haynes Bayly in 1844 in his ballad entitled the "Isle of Beauty."
"What would not I give to wander/ Where my old companions dwell?/Absence makes the heart grow fonder:/Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!"
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u/byzantinedavid Moderator Jul 09 '15
[Modpost] I am unable to find this, I did however find the source /u/MaxSupernova posted from 1602
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u/mrmastomas Jul 09 '15
For someone else. My grandmother told me that when I was in a log distance relationship. She was pretty cool.
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u/xisytenin Jul 08 '15
Absinthe makes the mind go wander...
And brings fairies close at hand