Quotes About Presence

Now is now. There is nothing but now... This, right here, is all there is.

Now is now... There is nothing but now and I try to hold on to that. The past is gone, the future hasn't happened yet. This, right here, is all there is.

If there's a wasp in the room, you'd rather know where it is.

The sense of incredible realism that many people experience when interacting in virtual worlds with virtual people is known as presence.

Alla har upplevt känslomässig överföring... . Men en ofta förbisedd aspekt av all denna överföring av känslor är att de inte bara sprider sig till våra vänner utan också till våra vänners vänner och ännu längre - även om vi inte ens är närvarande.

With visible breath I am walking. A voice I am sending as I walk. In a sacred manner I am walking. With visible tracks I am walking. In a sacred manner I walk.

The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.

When we're online, we're often oblivious to everything else going on around us. The real world recedes as we process the flood of symbols and stimuli coming through our devices.

Seneca may have put it best two thousand years ago: "To be everywhere is to be nowhere."51

I am not gone but merely walk within you.

Seems to me if you talk about these things too much, the magic gets lost and pretty soon talk is all there is. Some things in life just... are.

A text is a 'fabric of traces' governed by a logic of the 'nonpresent remainder', by what thus figures the impossibility of pure presence, the impossibility of absolute plenitude of meaning or intention.

In order to be what it 'is', a text is an essentially vitiated, impure, open, haunted thing, consisting of traces and traces of traces: no text is purely present, nor was there some purely present text in the past.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

Now that you're there and have been all along, I feel whole again. - Griffin Moss

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

You're like concrete. Completely real. Even just standing there, before you said anything, you made everything else real: the walls, the floors, what he'd done to me.

Be present, stay alert: the first rule of self-defense. But then I wouldn't be able to shut out the noise and stink and tension around me.

She walked on the wave of sound the length of the tables and back up again until she stood before Edwin, on the other side of the board.

For Leifen, a thing is beautiful if she can reach out and put her hand on it any time.

In my Armani suit I cut through the crowd like a hammerhead among trout.

She heard the world humming deep in its throat, and when it rang with its soft pulse, she leaned forward to strike the gong.

There are always people missing. And sometimes I see their ghosts.

She breathed in and out, in and out. He breathed as fast as she did. She felt the muscles sliding over his ribs. He smelt of thyme and mead and that iron-and-salt tang that made her nostrils flare.