Quotes About Presence

For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.

learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

My father's mood surrounded him like a field and affected any room he occupied, like an odor or a certain cast to the light.

all feet and teeth, is a shadowy lurking presence

Quiero ser así. Capaz de sentarme inmóvil y empujar la vida hacia mí, una frente cada vez.

you can't keep the thoughts from popping in there. The thing they try to teach you is just to Let Them Go, the thoughts. Let them come as they will, but do not Entertain them.

But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.

For you, in my respect, are all the world. Then how can it be said I am alone When all the world is here to look on me?

And nothing is, but what is not.

It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me?

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; be brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.

I think he would not wish himself anywhere but where he is.

Well, some folks figger as how I'm long dead, even whilst they're talkin' to my face.

to hold and possess the whole fullness of life in one moment, there and then, past and present and to come.

One did not so much feel sorrow at his absence as a sense of the unfitness of his not being there.

Qualcuno - un poeta latino - aveva scritto che l'eternità consisteva nel trattenere e possedere la pienezza della vita in un unico istante, nel qui e nell'ora, il passato, il presente e il futuro

A mnie tak si? z?o?y?o, ?e jestem przy tobie. I doprawdy nie widz? w tym nic zwyczajnego.

Die - you can't do that to a cat... Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.