Quotes About Essence

The main thing was being alive. That was the main thing.

Perhaps every terror is, in its deepest essence, something that needs our recognition or help.

The possibility of intensifying things so that they reveal their essence depends so much on our participation. When things sense our avid interest, they pull themselves together without delay and are all that they can be, and in everything new the old is then whole, only different and vastly heightened.

of all the disfigured and decaying Things, which, after all, are essentially nothing more than accidental remains from another time and from a life that is not and should not be ours.

Works of art can be described as having an essence of eternal solitude and an understanding is attainable least of all by critique. Only love can grasp and hold them and can judge them fairly.

We are unutterably alone, essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important to us.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Everything Real Is Self-Existent.

Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Tis not important how the hero does this or this, but what he is. What he is will appear in every gesture and syllable. In this way the moment and the character are one.

The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to its perfection.

Every moment instructs, and every object: for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence, until after a long time.

Over everything stands its daemon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody.

It has been said, that "common souls pay with what they do; nobler souls with that which they are.

The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man." —John Stott

Life is a search for the spiritual. Whether in the throes of pain or in the disappointments of pleasure, we strive for an essence that is beyond the physical.