Quotes About Presence

How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history—greater than the fall of empires—I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.

Quand mes mains te prennent, elles ne tiennent qu'un rien de ton être... Où es-tu donc tout entière, pour que j'aille t'y chercher ?

Bon ! cria-t-elle, j'avais déjà oublié que vous étiez là, vous ! Vous pourriez bien tousser avant de parler. Vous avez une voix qui part brusquement comme celle d'un mort.

But the best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying, our unbelief gradually starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day. He is no longer someone we theorize about. He is someone we want to be near.

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

So, with a ready heart I swore To seek their altar-stone no more; And gave my spirit to adore Thee, ever-present, phantom thing My slave, my comrade, my king

Ti si jedan od onih koje uvijek na?emo kad ih najmanje trebamo, a nikada kada ih trebamo.

He took a seat opposite Catherine, who kept her gaze fixed on him as if she feared he would vanish were she to remove it. He did not raise his to her, often; a quick glance now and then sufficed; but it flashed back, each time more confidently, the undisguised delight he drank from hers.

for what is not connected with her to me? and what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped in the flags! In every cloud, in every tree - filling the air at night, and caught by glimpse in every object by day - I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men and women - my own features - mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

A cada momento necesito recordarme a mí mismo que he de respirar, que ha de seguir palpitándome el corazón...!

The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

They say that God is everywhere and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse.

Where Thou art - that - is Home.

Remorse is memory awake, Her companies astir,— A presence of departed acts At window and at door. Its past set down before the soul, And lighted with a match, Perusal to facilitate Of its condensed despatch. Remorse is cureless,—the disease Not even God can heal; For 't is His institution,— The complement of hell.

They're here, though; not a creature failed, No blossom stayed away In gentle deference to me, The Queen of Calvary.

Renunciation--is a piercing Virtue-- The letting go A Presence--for an Expectation

I will show you the sunset if you will sit by me, but I cannot bring it there, for so much gold is heavy.

If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its chair

If you were here, and Oh that you were, my Susie, we need not talk at all, our eyes would whisper for us...

He lived where dreams were sown. His presence is enchantment, You beg him not to go; Old volumes shake their vellum heads And tantalize, just so.

REMORSE. Remorse is memory awake, Her companies astir, — A presence of departed acts At window and at door. It's past set down before the soul, And lighted with a match, Perusal to facilitate Of its condensed despatch. Remorse is cureless, — the disease Not even God can heal; For 't is his institution, — The complement of hell.

she uncurls danny's small fists and clasps his hand to hers and notices the way even in his sleep his fingers seem to know their way around hers; their hands together form their own organ, or an x, like on a map that insists you are here.

The task of any good cook, of any parent, is to be present- in the kitchen and out. To taste all the items, absorb each child's day, all those moments, and form them into the day's meals.