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Quotes About Existence

Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead?
~ Karen Marie Moning
You believe in God? Dude. Only God could have created physics.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?
~ Karen Marie Moning
Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?
~ Karen Marie Moning
This moment is perfect. And it's all we ever have. This moment, right now. We're fools if we fail to cram all the living and loving we can possibly do into each and every one.
~ Karen Marie Moning
There are many realities pocketed away in the one we call our own. Most go blindly about their lives and never see beyond the ends of their noses.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Az illúzió nem helyettesíti az életet.
~ Karen Marie Moning
As long as women walk this earth, I'll be a happy man. If they ever get wiped out, I'm done.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'm as weak and helpless and doomed as any other person. I'm a willing victim, ready, waiting, eager to be destroyed. I know with one part of my mind how horrifying that is, but with another part of my mind—a much larger one—I don't care. Being a victim to eternal pleasure sounds like the most perfect state of existence I could ever imagine.
~ Karen Marie Moning
TIME IS THE ONLY TRUE GOD, AND I AM FOREVER. THEREFORE, I AM GOD. Your logic is flawed. Time is not forever. It is always. Past, Present, and Future. There was a time in the past when you did not exist. Therefore, you are not God. I CREATE. I DESTROY. With the whimsy of a spoiled child. YOU FAIL TO DIVINE THE MASTER DESIGN. EVEN THAT WHICH YOU CALL CHAOS HAS PATTERN AND PURPOSE.
~ Karen Marie Moning
This moment is perfect. And it's all we ever have. This moment, right now. We're fools if we fail to cram all the living and loving we can possibly do into each and every one.
~ Karen Marie Moning
offered him my prayer, my challenge, the one that had gone eternally unanswered: Are you there? Are you as painfully alive and aware as me? Can you feel how much I'm giving you when I touch you like this? Are you worth me?
~ Karen Marie Moning
For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious." —ALBERT EINSTEIN
~ Karen Marie Moning
There's no such thing as normal," Barrons says. "You keep thinking that. You suffer hiraeth." "Here-eyeth?" I echo. "A Welsh word that means unattainable longing for a place—or perhaps more accurately a state of being—that never existed. Nostalgia for something that never was.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I relieved you of what you considered a despicable stain in your mind. Best fucking night of my existence." He laughs and shakes his head. "And you couldn't get rid of it fast enough. I didn't want to hide the memory from you. I wanted to cram it down your goddamn throat. I wanted to force you to face it, to want it, to want me, to be willing to fight for what was possible between us with the same single-minded devotion as you fucked.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I make a new discovery that totally blows. Dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks. One second I'm gone. I don't even exist. The next second, I'm on fire with pain.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Who doesn't know life is complicated? What I want to know is how to apply that to the nuts and bolts of my existence. Folks never tell you that part.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It's not easy to remember what you are every single bloody fucking second.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Love knows no right or wrong. Love is. Only is.
~ Karen Marie Moning
What is between them is without blame. Love knows no right or wrong. Love is. Only is.
~ Karen Moning
The same spine that has been inside her since babyhood is hers today, the exact same bones from the womb, a thought that always fills her with a kind of thrilling claustrophobia. So much surface wrapped around that old stem. She watches her hands smear the water droplets on her stomach. It's strange to own anything, Beverly thinks, even your flesh, that nobody outside yourself ever touches or sees.
~ Karen Russell
Who can say what the dead do or do not know? Perhaps the knowledge of one's death, ceaselessly swallowed, is the very food you need to become a ghost.
~ Karen Russell
Sand, sand, sand—all that pulverized time. Eons ago, the world's burst hourglass spilled its contents here; now the years pile and spin, waiting with inhuman patience to be swept into some future ocean.
~ Karen Russell
You could not survive your death, could you? It survived with you.
~ Karen Russell