Quotes About Existence

That was the moment. Until a minute ago I was so terrifying I was all that existed. But then she had forgotten me. Only for a fraction of a second, but it was enough. The forgetting was delightful because it was a sign that the hawk was starting to accept me. But there was a deeper, darker thrill. It was that I had been forgotten.

It must have been like death,'3 he wrote, 'the thing which we can never know beforehand.

Science encourages us to reflect upon the size of our lives in relation to the vastness of the universe or the bewildering multitudes of microbes that exist inside our bodies. And it reveals to us a planet that is beautifully and insistently not human.

Elusive, spectacular, utterly at home, the fact of these British goshawks makes me happy. Their existence gives the lie to the thought that the wild is always something untouched by human hearts and hands. The wild can be human work.

It is just that I am tired of being told I look at life too simply. It isn't naïve to believe that good exists, that evil exists. I have known both of them. I've seen them. I've felt them. They aren't just ideas that you can twist into neat phrases. They aren't words to be clever with. They are too vital. We live by them. Or else we make everything meaningless.

Time (is) a fabric; the instant called now (is) only a thread.

So she quit working to make sense of things— we don't realise it, but it's hard work we do almost every waking moment, building out thoughts and memories and actions around time, things that happened yesterday, and things that are happening right now, and what's coming tomorrow, layering all of that simultaneously and holding it in balance.

How can you know me and want to die?

I think the soul must be heavy and smooth, Myrna: I deduce this from the buoyant, jerky movements of puppets, which lack souls.

Miss Foxe occasionally wondered if she spent her life approaching invisibility and had finally arrived at it.

Safiye looked as if she was formed of fire herself, particles of flame dancing the flesh of her arm into existence. That or she was returning to fire.

Several prominent thinkers have proposed reclassifying Druhástrana as a purely notional/mythical land since a) nobody seems to actually come from there or know how to get there and b) literal interpretations of the assertion that Druhástrana exists may be a profound mistranslation of Czech humor.

We lived side by side with life but were afraid of meeting it. (Maria Pavlovna)

When the soul is dead and the body is the only concern, there's not much to get excited about...the only thing alive for me now is our literature.

You look on chaos and proclaim it as yourself.

2 Rien de réel ne peut être menacé. 3 Rien d'irréel n'existe.

No estamos separados de Aquel que es nuestra Fuente ni distanciados de los hermanos que forman parte de nuestro único Ser, Cuya

3 Si Dios es real, el dolor no existe. 4 Mas si el dolor es real, entonces es Dios Quien no existe.

lo que vemos no es real.

Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but "lies asleep."

There is no room for absolute truth upon any subject whatsoever, in a world as finite and conditioned as man is himself. But there are relative truths, and we have to make the best we can of them.

Realiteit is slechts de meest voor de hand liggende fictie.

For it was the rejection of the possibility of human solidarity with strangers—the critical as well as moral presupposition of civil society—that the National Socialist regime made into the foundation for its existence.

Any space that distinguishes directions and accelerations cannot be "empty", in Aristotle's meaning.