Quotes About Presence

I am tired of pursuing happiness. I want to breathe it in as ubiquitous as air.

I recall learning in my theology classes that in God there is no past, present, or future. There is only an "eternal now.

Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.

Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence.

How about we meet at midnight tomorrow and try this. I close my eyes, believe in you, and there you'll be.

t was beautiful, being there with Elliott. It was like there was nothing except him and me. I remember his palms, his chest, his chin, but it was like we were more than just our bodies. As if our essence was there in the darkness.

to listen for real.

I want to live my life, not record it.

The Doctor gave a modest shrug. "Well, I must admit that I made heads turn wherever I go. It's a burden that I just have to live with.

That's good. Always take the time. You really never know when you're not going to have it anymore.

wasn't afraid of dying because dying had always been somewhere in our house, somewhere so close, we could feel the wind of it on our cheeks.

When I sit down beside my mother, she shivers. When I touch Ellie's shoulders, she smiles like she knows it's me. Maybe she does. Who could have told me that the wind was some passed-on soul stopping to touch your face, your hands, your hair. Who knew a surprising cool breeze was someone who had gone before you saying, 'You're loved.

Je respire comme une pierre

Je suis très heureux que tu sois là, dis-je avec le sentiment que mes mots n'étaient pas à la hauteur.

Chère Marika, Le vieux Volks n'est pas là, et moi non plus, mais vous pouvez entrer quand même. Ça me réjouirait le coeur de savoir que vous êtes entrée, que vous avez bu du café ou du chocolat et mangé des biscuits, assise à ma place ou encore debout en regardant par la fenêtre. Simplement de savoir que vous êtes venue, je serais heureux. Même sans vous voir. A bientôt. Votre voisin, Jim

An orange on the table Your dress on the rug And you in my bed Sweet present of the present Cool of night Warmth of my life

Te voici Sujette à la Mort Etale ton Bien sur le Sol Poches, lettres, photos, paroles, Te voici Sujet en ta Mort. Te voici Corps perdant tout Corps Perdant tes lèvres, tes paroles, Chevelure noire du sol Au bord d'une Mort sans rebord. Ici le présent retenu Que tu ne tiendras pas, que tu Laisses continuer sa cible. Là ma mémoire sans projet Sans impossibles, sans possibles, Dont ta Mort est l'autre Sujet.

I'll always be there, Anna, in every ship you see sailing past. I'll be the wind in its sail.

Necesito una realidad, una vigencia, a ti, presente, cercana, para decir te quiero. Mi corazón se nutre de mis ojos, de mis manos, de todo lo que miro y toco. La ausencia es un engaño

Yo soy: ahora, aquí, siempre, jamás.

Amor, todos los días. Aquí a mi lado, junto a mí, haces falta.

Every moment is an experience.

A man came up the far side of the street, walking neither slow nor fast ,not turning his head, as he paused, and quite surely not noticing them; they watched him until he was out of sight, and Rufus felt, and was sure that his father felt, that though there was no harm in the man and he had as good a right as they did to be there, minding his own business, their journey was interrupted from the moment they first saw him until they saw him out of sight.

The man said somehow he was sure he was—dead—the minute he saw him. He doesn't know how. Just some special kind of stillness.