Quotes About Existence

Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.

As if you had died and your life had extended only to this present moment, use the surplus that is left to you to live from this time onward according to nature.

Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.

He (God) remembers that we are but shadows and dust, therefore what we do in this life echoes in eternity.

No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.

Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. We find ourselves in a river. Which of the things around us should we value when none of them can offer a firm foothold? Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it's gone.

The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose something he does not already possess.

Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

The act of dying is also one of the acts of life.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

Remember that no man loses other life than that which he lives, nor lives other than that which he loses.

All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

You don't have any need for a creator. Quantum fluctuations mean that we are seeing something appearing from nothing all the time.

Salvation Is More About This Life than an Afterlife

Don't ya'll have anything better to do than to mess with Myles?" she asked. "Sadly, Mom, they don't," Myles said. It's the only respite they have from their monotonous, inconsequential tedium of an existence." Amir's eyes widened. "Duck, Pop! He's gonna big word us to death." Amir lifted his forearm. "Thesaurus-shields up!

That was the lure of wealth, he'd discovered: a throaty whisper in your ear that you were special, that it was all - this wine, this woman, this world - for you. That it in some way existed only so that you might partake of it.

Be nothing. Be not the spider nor the man nor the future nor the past. Be the moment. Be nothing.

So why can't we see people?" "Because they're there, and we're here. They're creating the sound, we're living in the echo. There are drivers in the cars and clerks in the stores and ladies walking dogs. Living people, doing their thing. Totally unaware that at the same moment, us dead folks are walking through an echo of their world." Brody tried to picture it, an overlap of the real and the invisible.

He hadn't really known them, and like most people, he was just solipsistic enough to not truly believe they existed when he wasn't there. We're all background characters in someone else's movie. Maybe

He told her she was right. That for all they knew, they still knew nothing. That for all they knew, there were still worlds after this one, eternities that followed the abyss. And he told her that if they died tomorrow, he would follow her across them. He would chase her through existence if that's what it took.