Quotes About Existence

I feel as though maybe our concept of time and space is very limited. Maybe everything is all happening at once, if you know what I mean.

Not only is the past of a person with no memory inaccessible; his ability to think about the future is imperilled. Time travel, then, is ultimately - and paradoxically - an exercise in remembering. And without that capacity it simply cannot exist.

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way.

The idea that time is an illusion is an old one, predating any Times Square ball drop or champagne celebrations. It reaches back to the days of Heraclitus and Parmenides, pre-Socratic thinkers who are staples of introductory philosophy courses.

I think I think we are all so unique in our own way, and I think we are all just these tiny, little cogs in this incredibly massive, wonderful universe.

We are all just the tip of a pinprick of the millions of things that had to happen in order for us to be here.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your own journey, your own way of telling it?

To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

I believe in painting and I believe in eating too. What can we do? We have to eat, we have to paint, we have to live. Of course, there are different ways to survive. But it's my best option.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

I eat to survive, you know?

It's funny how much the lie of a life after life works with people. Even people who are non-believers seem to think that their soul is going to survive.

The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright creators to come up with new solutions that deal with the reality of the world we're living in today.

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.