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Quotes About Existence

Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.
~ Rajneesh
However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.
~ Charles Baudelaire
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
~ Mary Oliver
Nature abhors a vacuum.
~ Francois Rabelais
Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.
~ Blaise Pascal
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself
~ C. S. Lewis
Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
~ William Shakespeare
No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.
~ Ananda Coomaraswamy
The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.
~ Terence McKenna
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
In the midst of a universe that cannot exist for a second without constant motion, God transcended the order of nature. He stopped. He rested. And He prescribes the same for you and me.
~ Priscilla Shirer
Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.
~ David Hume
The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.
~ Maimonides
The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.
~ Rajneesh
ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.
~ Laozi
We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.
~ Alan Watts
What else is nature but God?
~ Seneca the Younger
Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.
~ Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
~ Ivan Turgenev
What nature creates has eternity in it.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.
~ Albert Einstein