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Quotes About Existence

Du glaubst, es ging mir um die Unsterblichkeit?" Ein raspelndes Kichern. "Darauf seid allein ihr Menschen so versessen. Keine andere Kreatur lebt in solcher Furcht vor ihrer eigenen Vergänglichkeit.
~ Kai Meyer
Müssten wir dann nicht alle an unserer Existenz zweifeln?
~ Kai Meyer
This is what I'm for. This moment.", FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
My family looks at me without recognition. Of course they do. They've been Faded. I remember them, but they have no recollection of my ever existing.", Celestra Caine from FADE by Kailin Gow.
~ Kailin Gow
How can one be serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous!
~ Kakuz? Okakura
A sa naissance, il entre dans le royaume des rêves pour ne s'éveiller à la réalité qu'au moment de sa mort.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
El chaísmo es un culto fundado en la adoración de lo bello que existe entre los sórdidos hechos de la existencia de cada día.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
Vacuum is all potent because all containing.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.
~ Kakuzo Okahura
In our spiritual vision we are not only to see each thing in sharp relief, standing out in all the brilliance of its specific being, but we are also to see each thing as transparent: in and through each created thing we are to discern the Creator.
~ Kallistos Ware
If there is a "problem of evil", there is also a "problem of good.
~ Kallistos Ware
All things are permeated and maintained in being by the uncreated energies of God, and so all things are a theophany that mediates his presence (pp. 21-23). At the heart of each thing is its inner principle or logos, implanted within it by the Creator Logos; and so through the logoi we enter into communion with the Logos (p. 33). God is above and beyond all things, yet as Creator he is also within all things—"panentheism", not pantheism
~ Kallistos Ware
The purpose of the creation doctrine, then, is not to ascribe a chronological starting-point to the world, but to affirm that at this present moment, as at all moments, the world depends for its existence upon God. When
~ Kallistos Ware
is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.
~ Kallistos Ware
Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.
~ Kami Garcia
In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.
~ Kami Garcia
Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.
~ Kami Garcia
I still hear the world spinning.
~ Kamila Shamsie
Yes, I know everything can disappear in a flash of light. That doesn't make anything less valuable.
~ Kamila Shamsie
The least amount of courtesy you should extend to someone is acknowledgement that they exist.
~ Kamila Shamsie
The flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same. The foam that floats in the pools Now gathering, now vanishing Never lasts long. So it is with man and all his dwelling places on this earth.
~ Kamo no Ch?mei
The flowing river never stops and yet the water never stays the same. Foam floats upon the pools, scattering, re-forming, never lingering long. So it is with man and all his dwelling places here on earth
~ Kamo no Ch?mei
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve. And like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
~ Kamo no Ch?mei