Quotes About Existence

I remember that life in that room seemed to be occurring beneath the sea. Time flowed past indifferently above us; hours and days had no meaning.

Our humanity is our burden, our life. We need not battle for it. We need only to do what is infinitely more difficult: that is, accept it.

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

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He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

The absence of Jesus is the mode of his presence.

The I AM of God, of Jesus, is the "I am" of every person, and it consists in every person being aware of herself or himself.

Like dew I was born Like dew I vanish ..and all that I have ever done Is but a dream Within a dream

A man's fate is a man's fate and life is but an illusion.

This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.

Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now .

You don't know for certain about God until you're dead.

Look at this sunset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.

What are clouds But an excuse for the sky? What is life But an escape from death?

Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and see and earth.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

Death and life are the same thing. This is the immutable law of nature.

Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you can do will change that. Today you're alive and here and honored, and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose

It's vast to be alive," he said happily. "I can almost hear the rain waiting to be born.