Quotes About Existence

Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.

Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.

I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.

What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?

We're here for such a short period of time.

In antihistory, time is an illusion.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?

Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.

Time is the mercy of Eternity without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.

Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present.

Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.