Quotes About Existence

A person couldn't wipe out the memories that shaped her being. She was a blend of past, present, and future.

If you no longer have a child, are you still a mother?

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life .

we defined for ourselves the meaning of life (to live intensely);

we believe there is something essential we don't have that's obtainable. what we long for doesn't exist, not anywhere. the ache is in the belief)

You believe you have no soul. That's a disorganized thought in my world. -Sarah Lange to Dr. David Sutton

Old Hamlet asks, "What is this quintessence of dust?" Dust it's a dry word, with Saharas of space between each letter.

The real world does, after all, include ourselves [Jill Paton Walsh, "Templates"].

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?

I shop therefore I am.

The nature of existence is founded upon cooperation, and everything occurs for a distinct and significant purpose on all levels of reality.

Existence is based on a subtle cooperation of energy that is multilayered and multidimensional in scope, and fully alive with a symbolism that reflects your beliefs and expectations of life. Your perceptions develop and mature according to your ability to grasp the interactive world of symbols and to interpret these symbols based on the stimuli and the sensations you experience. In other words, the meaning you assign to an event determines the outcome you experience.

The greater your integrity, the more the many gates of knowledge and the real truths of existence will be revealed.

On Earth, you are collectively engaged in learning that the physical world is not really solid or isolated or alone; all of existence is interrelated, totally connected, consciously intelligent, and completely accessible to everyone.

There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive.It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference , that's all.

Perhaps it's better to be unhappy than not to feel anything at all,' I said.

It is in a total state of involvement that one finds liberation from time.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

insistent principle that the life of the spirit and of the afterworld was superior to the here and now, to material life on earth,

Qué es una persona sin sentimientos? Si no hay amor ni odio, ni celos ni toda la gama de emociones que configuran la existencia humana, lo único que queda es un cascaron vacío

I think it's easy to see with the existence of these forms, the intermixing of prose and poetry, that they are really two sides of the same coin and that one doesn't do well without something of the other. Prose falls flat on its face without incorporating the dance of poetry and poetry has no voice without the narrative touch of prose.

If there be an axiom evident to all, it is this, that liberty is a first necessity of existence.