Quotes About Essence

Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff.

Sir George Sansom (1883–1965) defined them as "little drops of poetic essence.

Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they're full of meaningless activity; by night, they're full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things

To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one extracts its essence.

By day they're full of meaningless activity; by night they're full of a meaningless lack of it.By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no diference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things.

Passa uma borboleta por diante de mim E pela primeira vez no Universo eu reparo Que as borboletas não têm cor nem movimento, Assim como as flores não têm perfume nem cor. A cor é que tem cor nas asas da borboleta, No movimento da borboleta o movimento é que se move, O perfume é que tem perfume no perfume da flor. A borboleta é apenas borboleta E a flor é apenas flor.

Somos muerte. Esto, que consideramos vida, es el sueño de la vida real, la muerte de lo que verdaderamente somos.

Since the pleasure we get from art is in a sense not our own, we don't have to pay for it or regret it later. By art I mean everything that delights us without being ours – the trail left by what has passed, a smile given to someone else, a sunset, a poem, the objective universe. To possess is to lose. To feel without possessing is to preserve and keep, for it is to extract from things their essence.

Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self-expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes. In these moments my heart beats faster because I'm conscious of it.

Where there is form there is a soul.

Everyone has his alcohol. To exist is alcohol enough for me.

Laguna de la posesión (II) Nada puede penetrarse, ni los átomos ni las almas. Por eso nada posee nada. Desde la verdad hasta un pañuelo —todo es imposeible. La propiedad no es un robo: no es nada.

El mundo exterior existe como un actor en un escenario: está allí pero es otra cosa.

Be pure, not in order to be noble or strong, but to be yourself.

There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things.

Considero mie, con maggiore consanguineità e intimità, talune figure che sono scritte nei libri, certe immagini che ho conosciuto nelle illustrazioni, più di molte persone che sono considerate reali, che sono fatte di quell'inutilità metafisica chiamata carne e ossa.

O mundo exterior existe como um ator num palco: está lá mas é outra coisa.

Only what we dream is what we truly are, because all the rest, all that has been realized, belongs to the world and to everyone.

Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self-expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes.

V?d absenÅ£a semnificaÅ£iei din toate lucrurile. V?d asta ÅŸi m? iubesc,c?ci a fi un lucru înseamn? a nu semnifica nimic. A fi un lucru înseamn? a nu fi susceptibil de interpretare.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

I don't want features, I want value. I don't want benefits, I want value.

I think the soul of Good Charlotte is just feeling good.

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.