Quotes About Existence

I know you before you are born. I know you after you die. My plans for you are not defined by this world.

And thus, unknowingly, did Dor begin to serve his sentence— to hear every plea from every soul who desired more of the thing he had first identified, the thing that moved man further from the simple light of existence and deeper into the darkness of his own obsessions. Time. It seemed to be running too fast for everyone but him.

But out here, adrift, you realize how often we take our placement on this Earth for granted.

Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

Beginnings and endings are earthly ideas. I go on. And because I go on, you go on with me. Feeling loss is part of why you are on Earth. Through it, you appreciate the brief gift of human existence, and you learn to cherish the world I created for you. But

Counting life's moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down.

We forget that 'our' time is linked to others' times. We come from one. We return to one. That's how a connected universe makes sense.

You've been waiting here all this time? Eddie whispered. Time, the Captain said, is not what you think. He sat down next to Eddie. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

the thing that moved man further from the simple light of existence and deeper into the darkness of his own obsessions. Time.

But a clock ticks for all of us, silently, somewhere.

Unlike any man before him, Dor was being allowed to exist without getting older, to not use a single breath of the numbered breaths of his life. But inside, Dor was broken. Not aging is not the same as living, and without human contact, his soul dried up.

Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour.

Tell me something, Annie. Did the world begin with your birth?" "Of course not." "Right. Not yours. Not mine. Yet we humans make so much of 'our' time on earth. We measure it, we compare it, we put it on our tombstones. "We forget that 'our' time is linked to others' times. We come from one. We return to one. That's how a connected universe makes sense.

Let us remove God from the equation, shall we?

To comprehend yourself truly, which is also to comprehend the world truly, you needn't look any farther than at what abounds with life around you – the blossoming meadow, the untrodden woodlands. Without this as mankind's overriding objective, I don't foresee an age of actual enlightenment ever arriving.

If everything is really meaningless?then we should create the meaning for ourselves.

We are but an ephemeral bubble drifting on the surface of an endless void. Yet I can think of no bubble more beautiful.

Life was fleeting, I had learned, and death guaranteed. There had to be some greater purpose to it than the routine existance of daily life.

Someday you will die somehow and something's gonna steal your carbon.

Somewhere between dust and the stars

For in song lies the mystery of Being.

and time is the stuff of which a self is made.

You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.

with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.