Absence Quote by William Shakespeare

The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long…

— Terry Pratchett

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do…

— Anonymous

Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift…

— Edward Gorey

The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this…

— Aldous Huxley

As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises…

— Saint Augustine

Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may…

— Lactantius

There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

I dote on his very absence.

— William Shakespeare

How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days…

— William Shakespeare