Quotes About Existence

I've been born, and once is enough.

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end. And all is always now.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. So how should I presume?

Human kind Cannot bear very much reality. - Burnt Norton

Dawn points, and another day Prepares for heat and silence. Out at sea the dawn wind Wrinkles and slides. I am here Or there, or elsewhere. In my beginning.

We die with the dying; See, they depart, and we go with them. We are born with the dead: See, they return, and bring us with them.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is

The important fact is that for the man the act is eternal, and that for the brief space he has to live, he is already dead. He is already in a different world from ours. He has crossed the frontier. The important fact is that something is done which can not be undone-a possibility which none of us realize until we face it ourselves.

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality.

You have gone through life in sleep, Never woken to the nightmare. I tell you, life would be unendurable If you were wide awake.

It is not my conscience, Not my mind, that is diseased, but the world I have to live in.

Because I do not hope to know again The infirm glory of the positive hour Because I do not think Because I know I shall not know The one veritable transitory power

They don't understand what it is to be awake, To be living on several planes at once Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

You are here to kneel.

I was neither living nor dead, and I knew nothing

I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Oed' und leer das Meer.

And what did not happen is as true as what did happen

Dov'è la Vita che abbiamo perduto vivendo? Dov'è la saggezza che abbiamo perduto sapendo? Dov'è la sapienza che abbiamo perduto nell'informazione?

Meanwhile the substance of our first act Will be shadows, and the strife with shadows.

Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands;

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,/All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,/... Where is the Life we have lost in living?/Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?/Where is the knowledge we have lost in information

A little life