Quotes About Presence

I'd like to have enough time and quiet To think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others' eyes, reflected.

I don't regret anything I was before because I still am. I only regret not having loved you. Put your hands in mine And let's be quiet, surrounded by life.

I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I'm not there in an instant. (6/20/1919)

I pass and I stay, like the Universe.

The river of my village doesn't make you think about anything. When you're at its bank you're only at its bank.

I'm in no hurry. What for? The sun and moon aren't in a hurry: they're right. Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs, Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow. No; I don't know how to hurry.

There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you? But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for a moment. No wind whatsoever brought you now. Now you're here. What you were isn't you, or else the whole rose would be here.

Let's only care about the place where we are. There's beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else. If there's someone beyond the curve in the road, Let them worry about what's past the curve in the road, That's what the road is to them.

The main thing is knowing how to see, To know how to see without thinking, To know how to see when you see, And not think when you see Or see when you think.

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

Ogni volta che parliamo di «personalità» - sia maschile che femminile - noi ci riferiamo a una totalità, a un insieme composito di molteplici aspetti. Naturalmente alcuni saranno predominanti e sarà quindi più facile notarli dall'esterno; altri invece saranno più velati, nascosti, ma non per questo non faranno sentire la loro presenza.

Don't forget your eyes because I inhabit them

Qué soledad es ésta, llena de otro, con sus ojos y sus manos y sus cabellos poblando la aparente soledad de tu noche?

De noche me pregunto qué me puede importar a mí la literatura si lo que yo quiero es que X. esté a mi lado.

Blue eyes as a response to this death right next to me, which speaks to me and is me.

Te vas pero también aquí te quedas. Si las ramas crecen queriendo ocupar el cielo entero, las raíces nunca abandonan la tierra donde nacieron

Por eso, ser familia es serlo también de nuestros vivos y de nuestros muertos, de los recuerdos, de lo que pudo ser y no fue y de las conversaciones que quedaron en el aire y que repetimos en voz alta cuando estamos solos, invocando la cercanía de los que se fueron antes.

We stood there, squeezing each other's hands as though trying to press through the flesh to the bones and then beyond. She kissed my cheek and neck, and I felt the joy of omnipresent love -- everything around me speaking about me with affection, and Mary was listening.

El hogar es allí donde tu ausencia no pasa desapercibida

Perché nessuno possa dimenticare che non si è mai lontani abbastanza per trovarsi, mai.

Quante volte avrebbe desiderato di vederla dinanzi viva e reale, piuttosto che averla sempre fissa nel pensiero, piuttosto che dover trovarsi, giorno e notte, in compagnia di quella gorma vana, terribile, impassibile!

The interview gives us access not to the experience but to a verbal rendition of the memory of that experience, generated by the presence of the interviewer.

The handling of poisonous snakes in church is a test of faith and grace, just as catching them in one's yard is a test of prowess and courage. The deathly presence of the snake parallels the daily danger in the mines, and the culture takes a sort of ironic pride in its ability to handle it. … The snake is both something radically other and a household presence.

It was like walking: if Rumbold didn't concentrate too hard on it, the illusion took care of itself