Quotes About Presence

It's a happy life and someone is missing.

Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark -- to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than just lack of knowledge. A sort of will to ignorance. It would explain some politicians.

He got to his feet--always a fascinating process to watch, because of the length of his arms and legs--and glowered down at me.

Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.

She pushed yesterday, and everything in it, out of her mind, addressing herself, as the sensible should, wholly to the actual moment.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

Money, or the lack of it, pervaded the house as only something that is absent can

Most people, using everything they have in real life, cannot take hold of you the way a talented writer can without even being there. Talent is the ability to mesmerize people when you are nowhere near. Talent is the ability to make something that is more stunning than human presence.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, so long as the ones who are around make their presence in a long way.

Don't just stand there like two posts," she says crisply to us, "or someone'll come along and tie a horse to you.

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

Rather a tremor on the air than an audible sound.

just to be in his presence was an experience. It was what made Shackleton so great a leader.

Be near me when my light is low.

Do we indeed desire the deadShould still be near us at our side?

Other life pulsed about them — and was gone.

He disliked them, not because they were his fellow-countrymen, but because they were noisy and obtrusive, obliterating with their big limbs and tweed clothing all the quieter tints of the day that brought him satisfaction and enabled him to melt into insignificance and forget that he was anybody.

Vance merely echoed the rush of her vital personality.

For the Devil, the presence of learned one is by far more painful than a thousand worshipers.

Whites simply do not experience either what have come to be called the 'micro-aggressions' of everyday racism—habitually being followed by security guards in department stores is one extremely familiar experience; noticing the discomfort of white people in your presence is another

Everywhere's a here, isn't it?

He thinks about how, whatever being alive is, with all its pasts and presents and futures, it is most itself in the moments when you surface from a depth of numbness or forgetfulness that you didn't even know you were at, and break the surface.

Myself, I thought about you the whole time. Even when I wasn't thinking about you, I thought about you.

To be included in someone's absence, it is an honour, and it asks quiet. It asks respect.