Quotes about Essence
Empty, empty, empty, silent, silent, silent. The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in the heart of the house, alabaster, smooth, cold, holding the still, distilled essence of emptiness, silence.
- Virginia Woolf
All mists curl off the roof of my being.
- Virginia Woolf
All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
- Lao Tzu
Such is hope, Heaven's own gift to struggling mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things, both good and bad; as universal as death, and more infectious than disease!
- Charles Dickens
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
- Hans Kung
Perfume is the scent that pours out of a flower's soul when crushed.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose's beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Live with energy Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
- Oprah Winfrey
What is the soul? Indie Arie: The real you. You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
- Oprah Winfrey
In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you
- Oscar Wilde
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
- Oscar Wilde
I know that to be female is an older thing even than to be human.
- Cormac McCarthy