Quotes About Existence

I'm ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really.

In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time.

Time and death sleep side by side.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

What business does memory have with time?

Eternity! How know we but we stand On the precipitous and crumbling verge Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—

We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!

Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.

Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose.

Time can tick when there is no clock.

There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.