Presence Quotes

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. (Epictetus)
My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. View quote
David Byrne
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). View quote
James Thurber
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence. View quote
Johann Sebastian Bach
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. View quote
Willa Cather
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed. View quote
Earl Warren
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. View quote
George MacDonald
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested. (James Russell Lowell)
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation. View quote
Robert Bridges
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. View quote
Charles Cooley
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. View quote
James Thurber
I fly from pleasure,' said the prince, 'because pleasure has ceased to please I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Conscience is God's presence in humans. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye. View quote
Joseph Addison
We shall march prospering,not thro' his presence Songs may inspirit us,not from his lyre Deeds will be done,while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire. (Robert Browning)
Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose. View quote
François Fénelon
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream. View quote
Don DeLillo