Quotes About Existence

I'm not singing for the future I'm not dreaming of the past I'm not talking of the fist time I never think about the last

I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

Is it morning, or are we dead? 'cause I feel dead." "Nope, sadly it's just morning.

The only guarantee we are given when we are born is that we will die.

Reality is the condition we create for ourselves. If one side believes

Am I supposed to do something important ? It doesn't seem enough to merely take up space on this planet in this country in this state in this town in this family.

You must never assume or accept blame for being alive.

And sometimes I feel as if, already, I am not here—

We have always been going back, since birth, back toward not being alive.

And I wonder if the world is not silent— to be inside of—if it groans, if it creaks as it turns.

Many cells inside my ears, in the ossicle, and malleus, cochlea, have died where they lived and worked—I don't know if they're there, still, looking like themselves but dead, or if their corpses wore away, broke down to their elements and were shuffled off by capillaries, I don't know if I peed them out and now they're in an ocean bay or trench, or if I breathed them out, I might breathe one in again.

refreshing to live with, beings without the knowledge of death, creatures of ignorant suffering.

Perhaps I did nothing to ease their lives at that point except exist and remind them that I loved them. Perhaps that's all anyone can do at such a time.

If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

The most momentous events in life—baptisms, weddings, and funerals—don't seem to take much time, but the effects of them bind up the whole of your existence.

Why does man need bread? To survive. But why survive if it is only to eat more bread? To live is more than just to sustain life - it is to enrich, and be enriched by, life.

There is an implicit recognition here that important things in life are not always immediately visible, and can't always be named, or even fully understood. Others still are entirely imaginary -- like a red tree growing suddenly in a room -- although this does not make them any less real.

It's as if they take all our questions and offer them straight back: Who are you? Why are you here? What do you want?

What's the point?" I asked even though I didn't expect an answer. He shook his head. "I don't know. Power." He took a drag on the cigarette. "To what end?

Past, present, and future too swirl together, distinguishable but not delineated by any sort of grammar beyond the one our hearts impose.

This was how I learned Eternity all foes gone Just me here now And free to vary

There's so much beauty in this world that it's hard to begin. There are no words with which to express my gratitude at having been given this one chance to live - if not Live. Let other people frequent the nightclubs in their tight-ass skirts and Live. I'm just sitting here, vibrating in my apartment, at having been given this one chance to live.

I know that character exists from the outside alone. I know that inside the body there's just temperature.