Quotes About Existence

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

But to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.

If we begin to die when we live, and long life be but a prolongation of death, our life is a sad composition; we live with death, and die not in a moment.

Su tiempo en la tierra es nada más que un paréntesis de la eternidad.

We live, we love, we die. A little while we sing in the sun, and then ... we are gone.

Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.

The most urgent and demanding question for Christian believers is not whether "a supreme being of some kind" exists, but rather whether this incomparably good and powerful and compassionate source and end of all things truly is as revealed in Scripture

Yet to decide that this One exists is not quite like deciding that anything else exists. For this decision assumes a wider implication that the decider shall order his or her life around the existence of this One, if this One exists at all. It is not merely a casual or theoretical decision that makes no necessary difference to the way one lives the rest of one's life

God's way of being alive is distinguishable from other forms of life. Plants, animals, and humans enjoy life at different scales of consciousness, movement, and self-determination. But in all plants, animals, and humans, bodily life ends in death. From the moment of conception, the processes of decay and death are at work in our bodies. Not so in God's life. God's life is eternally alive. God's life is not only without end but without beginning.

Since time is no longer cyclical but one-way and irreversible, personal history is now possible and an individual life can have value.

If we grabbed a materialist by the throat and squeezed very hard so he could not breathe, would it prove to his lungs that there is no such thing as air without a throat?

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not....

One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream.

The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".

The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb—for we have no word to speak about it.

Today So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away. Out of Eternity This new Day is born; Into Eternity, At night, will return. Behold it aforetime No eye ever did: So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. Here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.

We looked out on Life, with its strange scaffolding

Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.