Borders Quote by Thomas Traherne

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

— Douglas Hofstadter

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

— Donna Tartt

I sense something, a presence I've not felt since.

— Anonymous

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

— Eckhart Tolle

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious…

— Diana Gabaldon

“As a little girl growing up, I always felt I was something more than a physical being imprisoned within flesh and bone. There was…

— Unathi Magubeni

“I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable strangeness. I recalled the voice I had…

— Charlotte Brontë

I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me -…

— Edvard Munch

“But as soon as our tongues collided, the sparks, the dizziness, and the butterflies all made sense. He made sense. We made sense. But…

— Danielle Allen

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source…

— Paul Cezanne

As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That…

— Sylvia Plath

There is a spirit, an energy, that works with us. We've all felt it at some point in our lives.

— Agapi Stassinopoulos