Quotes About Essence

Homeland is not a blot on a map but the living essence of man

Amar es desnudarse de los nombres.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body.

When you track, you're creating causal connections in your mind, because you didn't actually see what the animal did. That's the essence of physics.

Eric me había recomendado que iniciara mi viaje a la prehistoria yendo a Virginia para aprender bajo la tutela de Ken Mierke, un fisiólogo del ejercicio además de triatleta campeón mundial, a quien su distrofia muscular obligaba a reducir al mínimo, a la esencia misma, su estilo de correr. «Soy la prueba viviente del sentido del humor de Dios —le gusta decir a Ken—.

We are spirits clad in veils.

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

We must all start with the believable. That is the essence of our craft. All drama, all comedy, all artistry stems from the believable, which gives us as solid a rock as anyone could ask from which to seek humor.

When love is true, it enters the bones…

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

She liked talking to him, and the rest was irrelevant. People changed over their lives after all, becoming thinner or heavier, balder or more grey. It was their essence that mattered most

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

But the most important word in the language has but two letters: is. Is. I am at its core. I still am. I am at the living and soft centre. Still. It sparkles and is elastic.

the most important word in the language has but two letters: is. Is.

Esta é a vida vista pela vida. Posso não ter sentido mas é a mesma falta de sentido que tem a veia que pulsa.

She transformed herself into organic simplicity. And she'd figured out how to find in simple and honest things the grace of sin.

Nothing that I am not can interest me, it is impossible to be anything more than what you are.

My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it.

Since I am, the thing to do is to be

And woman was mystery in itself, she discovered. There was in all of them a quality of raw material, something that might one day define itself but which was never realized, because its real essence was "becoming". Wasn't it precisely through this that the past was united with the future and with all times?

When living comes to pass, one wonders: but was that it? And the answer is: that is not only it, that is exactly it.

O que não sei dizer é mais importante do que o que digo. [...] Cada vez mais escrevo com menos palavras. Meu livro melhor acontecerá quando eu de todo não escrever. Eu tenho uma falta de assunto fundamental.

é claro que a história é verdadeira embora inventada – que cada um a reconheça em si mesmo porque todos nós somos um e quem não tem pobreza de dinheiro tem pobreza de espírito ou saudade por lhe faltar coisa mais preciosa que ouro – existe a quem falte o delicado essencial.