Quotes About Existence

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

I have found God, but he is insufficient.

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

From CATS ARE KIND "A man said to the universe, 'Sir, I exist!' 'Excellent,' replied the universe, 'I've been looking for someone to take care of my cats.

If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to. I don't want to kill myself. I still want to listen to Charlie Parker and sit in a room alone at four in the morning. There are moments to live for. There are times, hours slammed together, that are definitely worthwhile. It's all the other hours, minutes and unendurable expanses of time that drag me by my collarbone slowly through the mindlessness of their blank words.

I hope I don't dream tonight. Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.

There are records I play like when someone goes to the temple and spins the prayer wheel. Like The Crack by the Ruts, which is a great record anyway but sometimes I play it just so the room is filled with it, so the air can't say it doesn't exist, so the walls must acknowledge it.

But fortunately no shadow ever broke a rock, and one can ask himself why he lives a thousand times and yet never die.

The mystery of death is not solved by dying just as the mystery of life is not solved by living .

But felt through all this fleshly dressBright shoots of everlastingness.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.

True Tenacity is in the Uncovering of the Purpose of Existence Rather than in the Pursuit of Existence.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Whatv is this life, if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

The whole of the Universe is run by God, which is one vast Imagination, struggling against the almost irresistible brute forces of the cosmos.

There is a paradise, and all true artists work to the glory of its existence, even if they do not always believe with conventional or organised faith.