Max Heindel

Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.

Danish Celebrity

David Brainerd

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

American Clergyman

Albert Camus

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

French Philosopher

Lincoln Steffens

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

American Journalist

Leonardo da Vinci

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

Italian Artist

Socrates

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Greek Philosopher

Edmund Burke

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Irish Statesman

John F. Kennedy

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

American President

Joseph Smith, Jr.

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

Jean Paul

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

German Author

Mainly found in literature; modern English often prefers 'where' or 'from where'.

Archaic Usage

Gives a poetic or formal tone to speech or writing.

Poetic Feel

Highlights the starting point or origin of a subject in discussion.

Implies Origin

Use when indicating a consequence or result of something.

Logical Consequence

Fits best in formal or literary texts, not in everyday language.

Formal Writing

Indicates a cause-effect relationship between two clauses.

Causal Relationship

 It ignores the fact that death can be an emotionally messy and complex affair, and that there is beauty in decay -- beauty in the natural return to the earth from whence we came. Now, I don't want you to get me wrong -- I absolutely understand the importance of ritual,

A burial practice that...

 its creators the ice hotel is not so much a building it's an inspiration it's frozen once a year shines briefly then returns to nature from whence it came

A Frozen Hotel? PIPE...

 finally returning to the world of three dimensions from whence we began

Whence

From where, or from what place.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

As a result of which.

Often appears as...

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Archaic Usage

Poetic Feel

Implies Origin

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