Quotes About Existence

Each word, as someone once wrote, contains the universe. The visible carries all the invisible on its back. Tonight, in the unconditional, what moves in the long-limbed grasses, what touches me As though I didn't exist? What is it that keeps on moving, a tiny pillar of smoke Erect on its hind legs, loose in the hollow grasses? A word I don't know yet, a little word, containing infinity, Noiseless and unrepentant, in sift through the dry grass.

The life of this world is wind Windblown we come, and windblown we go away. All that we look on is windfall. All we remember is wind.

A moment that should have lasted forever and forever Long over— it came and went before I knew it existed. I think I know what it means, But every time I start to explain it, I forget the words.

Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.

as the world forgets you; as you recognize your transience; as you begin to lose your characteristics one by one; as you learn there is no-one watching you, and there never was, you think only about driving - not coming from any place; not arriving any place. Just driving, counting off time. Now you are here, at 7:43. Now you are here, at 7:44. Now you are... Gone.

Compare this to any mess written by Charlie Kaufman.

The only moment that we exist is the moment we inhabit.

consciousness is a terrible curse. I think. I feel. I suffer.

Awareness is our true self; it's what we are.

The best form of saying is being

life seems to shorten itself, and all of a sudden

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room. There is this complexity which seems to me to be part of the meaning of existence and everything we value.

As the saying goes, the unexamined life is not worth-living.

It is significant, for example, that the moment when churchmen began to doubt the existence of the black man's soul was the same moment the black man's body was fetching high prices in the marketplace for their mercantilist cousins and parishioners.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt. —William Blake

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music. —Richard Dawkins

I dont want to die Then you shouldnt have been born

Attention Morte. I have a question. Do you have a destiny? A purpose? Is Annah still wearing clothes? Affirmatory. Then the answer is yes.

There were people in the world who were good and people who were evil, but most of them were some mixture of both and did what they did simply because they were mortal.

The plain unvarnished reality that we cannot escape who we are and most of the time we die as we lived.

we have on earth exactly the amount of time that has been allotted to us, no more and no less. We really have precious little control.

We are mortal. Nothing that touches us or we touch here is forever. Even rocks are rubbed small by the river. [Mary Deerfield]

I mean, do you believe in God or what? " "Not the name-brand God they serve here." Tim said. "That old guy with the beard, granting wishes out of the clouds to whoever says the most rosaries. That's bullshit. I believe in everything.

Permanent War One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun. —REINHOLD NIEBUHR, Beyond Tragedy