Quotes About Existence

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace has no before, after, or now,

Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.

somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .