absence makes the heart go yonder en · X
Etymology
Derived from absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Meanings
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Synonym of long absent, soon forgotten (“separation can result in someone finding other emotional attachments”)
Absence makes the heart go yonder, sweetheart. Wherever he's at, that's where you need to be also.
2019, A'zayler, In Love with My Enemy:There is truth in the old adage "Absence makes the heart grow fonder," but it is also true that "Absence makes the heart go yonder." Intimacy with God cannot survive and grow without a sense of God's actual presence with His people in the here and now.
2019, Timothy L. Anderson, Into His Presence: A Theology of Intimacy with God, page 37:Work if you must, but don't take a night job. Absence makes the heart go yonder.
2012, Sonny Bono, edited by Boze Hadleigh, Holy Matrimony!: Better Halves and Bitter Halves, page 109:Does Absence Make the Heat Grow Fonder? Sometimes. And sometimes absence makes the heart go yonder.
1989, William J. Petersen, Husbands and Wives, page 199: