Quotes About Existence

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a Plot of God. --Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka

Who's to say what's tied to all this?" Gab asked. "What's natural and what's not? If it's real then it's part of the reality.

This is an age when men hide their deepest fears and instincts behind a mask of rationality. Mankind has become a herd of sheep which does not believe in the existence of wolves.

Did I love her? Did the earth go around the sun? Did night follow day?

It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.

In the country! Oh, in the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time.

Outside of a teapot life is but thousands of dusty affairs.

Skin is a covering for our immortality.

I am emotion and bone held together by flesh and reality.

What golden spider warmed himself and spun This web that is the flesh upon your bones...

Body puts us on the brittle line between life and death.

There is no such thing as the future until it is the present.

Breakfast, dinner, tea; in extreme cases, breakfast, luncheon, dinner, tea, supper, and a glass of something hot at bedtime. What care we take about feeding the lucky body! Which of us does as much for his mind? And what causes the difference? Is the body so much the more important of the two? By no means: but life depends on the body being fed, whereas we can continue to exist as animals (scarcely as men) though the mind be utterly starved and neglected.

Is soul the stem and body the blossom — or body our stem, with soul its indigenous bloom?

A beating heart needs a soul to go with it, or it's nothing but a machine.

Soul shadows you everywhere.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars, and each moment is a day and the race a life.

I hear the heartthrob of time in my veins.

God doesn't wear a wristwatch.

We are only but guests at Time's tea party.

...is it not kin of the human family with its roots in the earth and its arms stretching toward the sky as if to seek and to know the great mystery?

If we run from the truth of our existence we become a lie...

The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.

OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.