Quotes About Essence

Fiction can be more real to the reader than reality itself because fiction is the essence of life

The triumph of finite sexuality is to be liberated from play into the body. The essence of infinite sexuality is to be liberated into play with the body. In finite sexuality I expect to relate to you as a body; in infinite sexuality I expect to relate to you in your body.

Deviancy, however, is the very essence of culture. Whoever merely follows the script, merely repeating the past, is culturally impoverished.

We allow ourselves to believe that nature can be explained. In the process we confine nature to those explanations. The eels, through their simplicity of form, their preference for darkness, and their grace of movement in the opposite direction of every other fish, have helped me to see things for which there is no easy classification, things that can't be quantified or solved, and get to the essence of experience. They have been my way back.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand,But they are not the Life for which they stand.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

It's not about outward appearances but inward significance.

We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it? To live.

I am a Californian by birth and also, I have recently discovered, by nature. The last is something I admit only now, after the fact.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

To see memory as the essence of life came naturally to Lincoln," Robert Bruce observes, for he was a man who "seemed to live most intensely through the process of thought, the expression of thought, and the exchange of thought with others.

He was not a figment of daydream or of fantasy. He was the quick-witted man who had raced with her; the man whose strong wrists had pulled her from trouble; whose laughter recognized, more than his own, her buffoonery; whose voice had whispered, sung, exclaimed or cursed, with equal felicity, carefree as birdsong on top of their striving. Whose essence, stripped by necessity was, it now seemed, warm and joyous and of great generosity.

Like all male creatures Wimsey was a simple soul at bottom.

Love is purity.

This beast, this angel is both you and I

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.

Awareness isn't something we own; awareness isn't something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.

It's just natural. It's not better than or higher than anything or anybody. It's simply the natural state of being. It's totally democratic. It's the inheritance of everybody.

It's not your ego that realizes it's God, but your true essence. It might be more accurate to say God within you realizes it's God; the radiance realizes that you are the radiance.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

I am all that there is of the most real.