presence Quotes

“I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth of centre of my soul as much as I can; and while I am so with Him I fear nothing; but the least turning from Him is insupportable.”

“Hold close to your essential self. Get to know it, the way you get to know everything in the world about someone you’re in love with, the way you know your child, their every freckle and preference and which cry means what.”

“An absence is not a presence, but still with each new depiction of a thistle, a shiver worked deeper and deeper into my spine.”

“Before walking back to my wife, my home, my friends, and my future, I surveyed the world around me. Socrates was here. He was everywhere. ”

“I don’t know how he calmed me down without even talking, but he did. Some people just have a calming presence about them and he’s one of those people.”

“At life’s banquet of success I may not be the guest of honor, but I’ll be among those present.”

“Up, voices! Louder! Higher!”

I felt the same vague terror which had come to me before and the same sense of some presence.

I notice, when I enter his presence, the muscles of his countenance are involuntarily distorted into an expression of hatred;

When Heathcliff is in, I’m often obliged to seek the kitchen and their society, or starve among the damp uninhabited chambers; when he is not, as was the case this week, I establish a table and chair at one corner of the house fire, and never mind how Mr. Earnshaw may occupy himself; and he does not interfere with my arrangements.

“You may laugh, if you will; but I was sure I should see her there. I was sure she was with me, and I could not help talking to her.”

“He wants to make you a present of ten thousand roubles and he desires to see you once in my presence.”