Quotes About Existence

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.

EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

The best meditation I ever had, I haven't had yet. It's in the future, which as anyone knows doesn't exist - anyone who meditates knows. But yet, I will have it someday.

Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Those who fear life are already three parts dead.

For you and me today is all we have tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.