Quotes About Existence

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow may never come. There is only the miracle of this moment. Savor it. It is a gift.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

The present is the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

When shall we live if not now?

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

One thought fills immensity.

Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the thousand small, uncaring ways.

The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.

It is privilege of living to be ... acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

Such stuff the world is made of.