Quotes About Presence

This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much - so many moments, so many people and things, so many razors and pillows, timepieces and subtle coffins - without her being aware? How did her life live itself without her?

All that mattered was him looking at me

That's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that the love is there.

There are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear.

We're here, the glow of 1804 will say in one and a half centuries. We're here, and we're alive.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at all.

that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there

And there are no cures for the hurt that hurts most. There is only the medicine of believing each other's pain, and being present for it.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

Am stat cuibariti cateva momente, apoi ne-am intins amandoi pe spate si iarba era ca un pat. Pentru ca era asa de intuneric, puteam vedea multe dintre stele. Era ca si cand ne-am fi aflat sub o umbrela mare sau sub o rochie. Am vorbit multe minute despre multe lucruri, dar de fapt eu nu-l ascultam si nici el nu ma asculta, si eu nu ma ascultam pe mine, iar el nu se asculta pe sine. Ne aflam pe iarba, sub stele si asta este ceea ce faceam.

I had lusted after Donald— after his time, his attention, his presence—because I felt I had a right to. I saw what a consuming, fiery passion lust can be. It was a desire that I did not want to deny myself. In the end, I lost everything that I sought to selfishly control.

Cuántas cosas cambiarían si pudiésemos disfrutar de nuestros tesoros tal como son.

Estar contigo o no estar contigo, es la medida de mi tiempo.

The word must have been in the beginning a magic symbol, which the usury of time wore out. The mission of the poet should be to restore to the word, at least in a partial way, its primitive and now secret force. All verse should have two obligations: to communicate a precise instance and to touch us physically, as the presence of the sea does.

Being with you or without you is how I measure my time.

I suspect, however, that he was not very capable of thought. To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions. In the teeming world of Funes, there were only details, almost immediate in their presence.

What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.

The more invisible something is, the more certain it's been around, and the more obviously it's everywhere.

But I didn't care. I just wanted to be close to them and feel their presence. I felt as if I were in there with them, looking out of their eyes, sharing their thoughts.

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end… The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth—that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.

Time explodes, so again, eternity is not something everlasting. You can have it right here, now, in your experience of your earthly relationships. I've lost a lot of friends,...that moment when I was with them has an everlasting quality about it that is now still with me. What it gave me then is still with me, and there's a kind of intimation of immortality in that.