Quotes About Existence

We are made from clay, water, sun, air, and dream, and we feed on clay, water, air, sun, and dream. We are rains, snows, suns, we are seasons without the right to go back.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

because light travels to us over distance, everything we see is an illusion. And that the whole purpose of existence is to cut the distance between the source of the illusion and our perception of it. And if we can do that, then we can see that every particle of matter is the same.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

My interior world does not correspond to the real world.

Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm unsullied by human struggle, it will always be entangled with the world we live in.

He was a man who did not properly exist in any single world, but he seemed to have found a place between them, and that, more than his past, was who he was.

My aim throughout is to let facts speak for themselves. If they seem strange, unreal, even impossible, I can only say that the things of the invisible world must always appear so to those whose thoughts and desires are centred on this life only.

I am living. I remember you.

But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living. I remember you.

This is what the living do.

Birth is a mystery. Words are not enough.

What people really seek, even if they project it sometimes onto outer objects, is the feeling of being alive.

When all secret thoughts of the Universe are known, life will begin again. When dark waters breathe into the bluing mouth of the sky, when all that sprouts from the blazing core is singed in harmonious change, when masculine and feminie energies are equally accepted, when time crawls inside itself, exposing eternal existence, then all shall know there is, always has been, everlastingly will be a sacred place where spirits gather for all in all. Let us become consciously, ceremoniously grateful.

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

the words of Pyotr Stephanovich come into my mind: You must love God because He is the only one you can love for Eternity. That sounds very profound to me, and tears come into my eyes whenever I say it. I never heard anyone else say it. But I don't believe in God and if I did I couldn't love Him/Her/It. I couldn't love anyone I thought had created this world.

how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist

The continuation of man's life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.

Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death.

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.

Nobody likes the phenomenon of death, and death hates the phenomenon of life

Tis only when faced with our own mortality that we truly realize what it means to be alive,

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It's the living we fear.

Fear is the limit of existence.