Quotes About Existence

You spend very little time in the present moment. Reality exists only in the present moment. Therefore you spend very little time in reality.

And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.

Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

I had so much free time that free time was meaningless.

Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence. At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection.

My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.

Time unbounded is hard to handle.

If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!

Time is so fast that all times are past times! When you look at a photo of the past, you must know that you are already in the album, someone else is looking at your photo! All times are past times!

Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.

But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.