Shakespeare Absence Quotes & Sayings

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars. — Diana Wynne Jones

SONNET 57
Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
Nor services to do, till you require.
Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour
When you have bid your servant once adieu;
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are how happy you make those.
So true a fool is love that in your will,
Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill. — William Shakespeare

We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun. — William Shakespeare

There are things that a woman sings, and only a woman knows the full meaning. You may sing for men as well as for women, but only a woman knows your full meaning. I am not a feminista. I only think a woman should be true to who she believes herself to be. Or who she wants herself to be. Or who she imagines herself to be. I don't know what I mean, or whether I'm true myself to any of that. I don't think there are many of us who are true to our possibilities. — Gayl Jones

Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen. — Michael Moriarty

Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me. — Robert Barry

Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It — William Shakespeare

How shall I abide
In this dull world, which in thy absence is
No better than a sty? — William Shakespeare

You make me feel like I can do it. If you're with me, I can do anything. — A Meredith Walters

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness. — Mark Twain

How like a winter hath my absence been
From Thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen,
What old December's bareness everywhere! — William Shakespeare

This absence of literary culture is actually a marker of future blindness because it is usually accompanied by a denigration of history, a byproduct of unconditional neomania. Outside of the niche and isolated genre of science fiction, literature is about the past. We do not learn physics or biology from medieval textbooks, but we still read Homer, Plato, or the very modern Shakespeare. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I dote on his very absence. — William Shakespeare

From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information. — Idries Shah

For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,
And, thou away, the very birds are mute:
Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer,
That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. — William Shakespeare

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust
My absence doth neglect no great design
Which by my presence might have been concluded. — William Shakespeare