Quotes About Existence

All that existed was the direction I travelled; an invisible path in the mettle of manifestation. I was the spirit of all soulscapers, past and present.

We are trapped on this world, Gimel. From this perspective, this moment of Now, we are trapped here forever. We cannot die, and yet, we do.

How many personalities resided in a single body? Was it possible all aspects of a person could be real?

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

Apparently I can't prove the chair I'm sitting on exists, because I only think it exists because my bum tells me it does and I can't empirically trust my bum to tell the truth...' 'That what it says?' 'Far as I can tell, one of the great philosophical minds of the eighteenth century thinks my arse is a liar.

She realized that the stains on the pot—like the scratches on her records, the dent on the kitchen floor where she dropped a skate, and the lines on her face—they all added up to the same thing: her life. They said, in their own way, the only thing that any of us can say, the only thing that is worth saying: I passed this way. I was here.

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Because a book is a life, like one man is a life.

This coming December, it'll be three years I made the trip to California. I got a sister out there. I stayed out there over the Christmas holidays and we went to Disneyland. Believe it or not, honest to God, I didn't think such beautiful things existed in this world of ours. It was somethin'.

The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence.

As the writer and scientist Isaac Asimov put it: 'Life is pleasant, death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

I realised that day that when the animation of the person we were is stripped out of the vessel we have used to pilot our way through life, it leaves little more than an echo or a shadow in the physical world.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.

the reward for getting through life is getting life itself.

The unasked-for gift of being with people at the end of their lives...is a simple but profound appreciation of the here and now of life itself.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. —Theodore Dreiser

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

There is nothing perfect...only life.

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in I think that's how dogs spend their lives.

If you have your why? in life, you can get along with almost any how? People don't strive for happiness, only the English do.

musical dissonance must be the most effective artistic means of representing the pain of individual existence.