Quotes About Existence

This is the true inheritance tax of life. Behaviours and habits, ingrained, your own but not your own, a duty on your existence, a tariff to be levied on those who try to love you.

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

A star has died. Elsewhere in the cosmos, in an unremarkable corner of one galactic arm, a child was born. Such is the balance of existence.

Space is substance.

What has become of the adventures of the heart? Killed by the dark adventures of existence. ERICH MARIA REMARQUE

Without the daily texture of existence to occupy it, he learned, the human soul wavers, wanders, begins to feed upon itself, and, in time, disintegrates.

For at the very moment you have Now, it flees. It is gone. It is, on the instant, Then. Surely.

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." - Prentice Ritter

It was one of those imponderables of existence that months, even years, can go by without anything significant happening, and then suddenly a cluster of hours comes along or even minutes, that can blow a hole in time a mile wide

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!"19 If the world and everything in it belong to God and come under his direct claim over them in and through Jesus, then there can be no sphere of life that is not radically open to the rule of God. There can be no non-God area in our lives and in our culture.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

when I slip into the past, I become it.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.

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…

MODESTY IS NOT ABOUT being covered up, but about awareness of a private life and of personal dignity. Today this concept of private dignity does not exist. As a result, everything is flaunted, everything is public. —RABBI YAAKOV WEINBERG (1923–1999)

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Everything's dead, but good, because it's dead before coming alive, not dead after being alive. That's how I look at it.

We die, he said. We die, I said. And knowing this how do we live? Knowing this, we live. We live.

Sophisticated Hindus do not think of God as a special and separate superperson who rules the world from above, like a monarch. Their God is "underneath" rather than "above" everything, and he (or it) plays the world from inside.

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.