Quotes About Presence

his showing up during a battle was the equivalent of adding twenty-five thousand troops.

Most people in the real world don't obsess over it.

However, our presence in the sample completely vitiates the computation of the odds.

his presence is needed at every performance

Can you feel this? He flattened her palm on his chest. His heart thudded rapidly against her palm. It always does this when you're near me. When you're not, I'm looking for you, feeling something missing. I'm not whole when you're not around. It took being with you again to discover how empty my life was without you in it. - Brady Fitzpatrick

You have made my life better by just simply existing.

When we feel visible, we feel that the other person and I are in the same reality, the same universe, metaphorically speaking

Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy.

At the crisis of my fever, I besought Hollingsworth to let nobody else enter the room, but continually to make me sensible of his own presence… then he should be the witness how courageously I would encounter the worst. It still impresses me almost a matter of regret, that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to do it

The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the alleviation of the misery they witnessed; and they felt that mere curiosity would not authorize a longer intrusion. So soon, therefore, as they had relieved, according to their power, the poverty that seemed to be the least evil of this cottage, they emerged into the open air.

It must suffice, that, though my form be absent, my inner man goes constantly to church, while many, whose bodily presence fills the accustomed seats, have left their souls at home.

Nevertheless, in spite of all these professional grudges, artists are conscious of a social warmth from each other's presence and contiguity. They shiver at the remembrance of their lonely studios in the unsympathizing cities of their native land. For the sake of such brotherhood as they can find, more than for any good that they get from galleries, they linger year after year in Italy, while their originality dies out of them, or is polished away as a barbarism.

From now on, I want my life to be about living.

I conclude it would be a good place to be alone with my thoughts, but I should already know that my thoughts are never alone.

I like the idea of communication tethering you to a single spot, Tenkamenin told Anastasia. It forces you to give every conversation the attention it deserves.

I will always be there on the horizon,' I tell her. And with infinite sorrow, she says, 'I believe that. But sadly I am no longer looking out of that window.

We're roughage, Tyger said. If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there.

I should already know that my thoughts are never alone.

Tell them whatever you like. It doesn't matter, as long as you're there tomorrow morning.

Listen, my dear-- with soft step the night hears.

The poetry is not in speaking to the dead but listening to the dead.

If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.

I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books, our morning coffee, our noons, our nights, our bodies spilled together, sleeping, the tiny flowing currents, immediate and forever. Your leg, my leg, your arm, my arm, your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.

I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.