Presences Quotes

#1. And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

Thomas Keneally

#2. I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. It was the absences that had made her think, not the presences.

Nick Hornby

#4. To a person who loves, is not absence the most certain, the most effective, the most durable, the most indestructible, the most faithful of presences?

Marcel Proust

#5. Listen to presences inside poems,
Let them take you where they will.
Follow those private hints,
and never leave the premises.

Rumi

#6. Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.

Annie Besant

#7. The truth is, those people we feel drawn to most might not be intended as love interests, but rather as life-changing, life-altering presences that come into our lives for reasons we can't yet understand.

Tonya Hurley

#8. I think there are presences out there that we can't see or directly communicate with that have benevolent influence on us. Whether they're angels or something else, I'm not sure.

Misha Collins

#9. People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective.

Kevin Systrom

#10. Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

May Sarton

#11. You can't get a guarantee from everyone who appears in personal photographs that they will forever remain warm presences in one's life or sweet memories.

Emily Yoffe

#12. This is Tehran for me: its absences were more real than its presences

Azar Nafisi

#13. That's what all painting is about, its space and light occupied by human presences.

Leon Kossoff

#14. 'Zeal' is essentially a compromising devotion to God, a commitment to cleansing the Holy Land of all foreign and pagan presences and to re-establish the kingdom of David as God had intended.

Reza Aslan

#15. He was as inexpressive as he is to-day, and yet oddly obtrusive: one of those uncomfortable presences whose silence is an interruption.

Edith Wharton

#16. Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping.

Doug Dillon

#17. So, pop quiz, Mr. Parrish. Three things that appear in the vicinity of ley lines?" "Black dogs," Adam said indulgently. "Demonic presences." "Camaros," Ronan inserted.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. Here are the bills again, I always dread them a little. They are familiar presences: first in the mail box, then in the bill drawer, now on the desk. Services Rendered. "My life is dependent on services rendered."

Gunilla Brodde Norris

#19. The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.

Emma Bonino

#20. Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others except as shadow presences, urging you to come out and rejoin the world, take in a movie, go out for a bite, cheer up.

Daphne Merkin

#21. My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.

Jennifer Egan

#22. [Judith Shakespeare] lives in you and in me [ ... ] she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh.

Virginia Woolf

#23. Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

Octavio Paz

#24. The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment in time.

Robert Grudin

#25. I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

Louis Kahn

#26. You know you've found love when they have: a smile that melts you, an innocence that soothes, a presences that glows and a trust in them that grows. - For Lydia

Kieran Harper

#27. I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.

Dee Dee Ramone

#28. It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

James Douglas

#29. Do you not feel', said the Doctor in his very soft but still crisp-edged voice, 'that invisible presences have more reality than visible ones? They exert more influence upon us. They make us cry more easily.

Angela Carter

#30. Listen to presences inside poems.

Rumi

#31. I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

Jean Giraudoux

#32. The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a fault and boded no ill but thought well enough of themselves to repeat their presences.

William H Gass