Quotes About Existence

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

We are constantly invited to be what we are.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.

ONLY THE DAY DAWNS TO WHICH WE ARE AWAKE,IF WE ARE TO GRASP THE REALITY OF OUR LIFE WHILE WE HAVE IT,WE WILL NEED TO WAKE UP TO OUR MOMENTS,OTHERWISE,WHOLE DAYS,EVEN A WHOLE LIFE COULD SLIP BY UNNOTICED..

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel the cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.

To be awake is to be alive.

When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.

The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.