Quotes About Existence

Life keeps time, and it seems that the beat is an old one, determined mainly by the rotation of our own planet, which turns the sun on and off like some giant cosmic strobe light. Life

Maybe I had been alone in that apartment so much by then that I had retreated into some kind of inner, unsociable space that was hard to come out of. Maybe I felt I had disappeared and I was comfortable that way and did not want to be forced back into existence. I don't know.

105 years old: she wouldn't be alive today even if she hadn't died.

Our lives are in chronological order, if no other kind of order.

He says to us: They don't really do anything. Then he adds: But of course there is not a lot for them to do.

I had never before thought so clearly about all the scenes that took place when I wasn't there to witness them. And then, I had a stranger and less pleasant thought: not only was I not necessary to those scenes, and not necessary to those lives that continued to go on without me, but in fact, I was not necessary at all. I didn't have to exist.

The evidence of death is before my eyes constantly. Moving from me outward. My death always a step in advance. The world is a mirror of myself dying. The world not dying anymore than I die. I more alive a hundred years from now. Than at this very moment.

Ce que j'aimais sans mesure chez ces sept femmes (lesquelles ayant pris le risque de vivre sans prudence ne purent éviter celui d'en souffrir) c'était leur puissance poétique, c'était la grâce de leur écriture, c'était le retournement qu'elles opéraient sur les forces de mort et leur pouvoir de conjuguer l'oeuvre avec l'existence, c'était le bouleversement qu'elles provoquaient en moi et le surcroît de vie qu'elles ne cessaient depuis longtemps de m'insuffler.

Él no se mató, no. Murió como..., como todo el mundo un día muere.

Se eu ficar assim imóvel, respirando leve, sem ódio, sem amor, se eu ficar assim um instante, sem pensamento, sem corpo…

O relâmpago a iluminara e a devolvera à escuridão, lá onde também estavam os outros.

Life proceeds from life.

A bad God is worse than no God at all.

God is infinite and we are finite; and, at the best, we can only know him a very little.

I do not believe that the laws of nature have ever been violated, for this would be to believe that God who dwells in nature and animates it has violated the laws of his own being.

But one truth must ever grow clearer — the truth that there is an Inscrutable Existence everywhere manifested, to which we can neither find nor conceive either beginning or end. Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain this one absolute certainty, that we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed.

But neither painting, literature, music, nor architecture is so impressive as life.

You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law.

How is it that you wrenched apart that which is inseparable? Why did you create the Either/Or? Flesh or spirit, body or soul, thinking or feeling.

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.

The only secret people keep is 'Immortality', Dickinson once said. Immortality is the mystery at the core of her story.

All you had to do was look up at the stars at night or at a baby's face to know God existed.

Evil is always with us. The balance is all.