Being There Quotes

345 Being There quotes by 260 unique authors

It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being… — Pascal Mercier
His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything --… — Alice Sebold
The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line,… — Samuel Beckett
Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really… — Gary D. Schmidt
I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that. — Nicholas Sparks
But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was… — Jack Gilbert
As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into… — Nancy Holder
Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough. — Wallace Stevens
It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment… — John Fowles
Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in… — Jean Baudrillard
Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever. — George Orwell
[...] even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight,… — Meg Cabot
In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk… — Sara Zarr
Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the… — Soren Kierkegaard
If you know your being, there is no question of becoming. All that you could have ever imagined to become you already are. You are… — Rajneesh
He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough. — Anthony Horowitz
Despite the fact that she was essentially comatose, she somehow made his whole house feel different just by being there. Before it had been just… — Julie James
Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built… — Ilona Andrews
And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it.… — Ernest Hemingway
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be… — Michael Ende
I’m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn… — Helen Oyeyemi
What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of… — Paul Harding
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening. — Madeleine L'Engle
And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart — Holly Goldberg Sloan

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