Quotes About Essence

Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.

There is something in the magic we have that is greater than the magic we can do.

The eye of the mystic who is enraptured in love sees traces of eternal beauty everywhere and listens to the mute eloquence of everything created. Whatever he mentions, his goal is the essence of the beloved—like Zulaykha, who, longing for Joseph's beauty, applied to him "the name of every thing, from rue-seed to aloes-wood." If she piled up a hundred thousand names— her meaning and intention was always Joseph. (M 6:4022-37)

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

the essence of a communication is often distorted in translation.

Soul is the individual expression of spirit, and spirit is the universal expression of soul.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.

My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.

Protests are the very essence of America! It is a country founded in protest.

I am nothing but words, just a shape of dreams or night.

amounting to about

She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.

Oh, sleep that dreams, and dream that never tires, press from the petals of the lotus flower something of this to keep, the essence of an hour.

Now there was this scarcely saved waif of disaster bringing him the essence of a continent...

naked souls are poor things ever

She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one- the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul.

Very few things matter and nothing matters very much.

That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same."