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Quotes About Existence

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.
~ Arthur Eddington
Isn't it a coincidence that you and I are both alive at the same time?
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
~ Barbara Deming
All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.
~ Billy Collins
People die all the time. It's just that you're not around.
~ Billy Connolly
I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.
~ Billy Corgan
Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.
~ Blue Balliett
There doesn't seem to be any tomorrow. Every time I wake up, no matter in what position, it's always been today.
~ Bob Dylan
Our perception of time is indeed our reality.
~ Brigid Schulte
For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
~ Brit Marling
The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.
~ C. S. Lewis
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.
~ C. S. Lewis
Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
~ Camille Paglia
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter.
~ Carl Sagan
We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.
~ Carl Sandburg
I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.
~ Carmen Laforet
While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
~ Carson McCullers
you don't deal with time. Time deals with you.
~ Cecil Dawkins
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
All experiences exist in one time frame.
~ Christine McCormick Day
Killing time. Its a very crass and breezy expression when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.
~ Christopher
It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it.
~ Colson Whitehead
To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.
~ Dan Falk
It feels like we've stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.
~ David Levithan