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Quotes About Existence

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.
~ J. M. Coetzee
Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.
~ Jack Finney
Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
~ James Joyce
Time is so...fluid where I live
~ Janet Morris
Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Doesn't becoming imply time?
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.
~ Joan Silber
You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.
~ Josef Pieper
You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.
~ Joseph Conrad
Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice
~ Josephine Hart
Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
~ K. D. Lang
They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else to drown it out at the time?
~ Karl Pilkington
Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.
~ Lauren Oliver
One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.
~ Leonard Cohen
Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.
~ Margaret Atwood
The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.
~ Michel de Montaigne
All thought is energy. All things are in motion. All time is now.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
~ Paul Auster
The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.
~ Paul Schrader
Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time - time disappears.
~ Rajneesh