Quotes About Existence

I guess that's all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

I guess that's all forever is. Just one big long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end.

Man is the measure of all things', meaning that there is no truth except that which man perceives.

thos anthrp?i daím?n Character for man is fate. Heraclitus

The existence of the Slemmington Hunt was

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

There are too many poems about death. Death, churchyards, wormy cadavers. Death is really a small part of life, and it's not the part that you want to concentrate on, because life is life and it's full of untold particulars.

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It's a mistake of emphasis.

the present is all that you ever have in life, and that these moments of magic are too precious to be ignored because you're too busy thinking about the next thing.

In that instant, I was a tiny grain of life gifted with being able to observe the inexplicable vastness of the universe, and the only thing that mattered was the excruciating beauty of being there. Of being there to experience it all.

He understood only then how you could love someone, how you could be proud of someone, simply because the were, simply because they existed.

Something about being overwhelmed, just momentarily, by the beauty of existence.

The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.

Oh, we will know, won't we? The stars will explode in the sky Oh, but they don't, do they? Stars have their moment and then they die

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are.

There Will Always Be Suffering It Flows Through Life Like Water

Cory didn't understand existential answers. Neither does life.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Time is relative. Now is absolute; the only time we can ever truly be.

Every wall has two reasons for existing.

The only two things that matter to me, the only motivation points for me writing all these songs,' opines Costello with a perverse leer, 'are revenge and guilt. Those are the only emotions I know about, that I know I can feel. Love? I dunno what it means, really, and it doesn't exist in my songs.

One ascends into profundity, but profundity is nothing but a complication of the shallows, and 'one' is nowhere.

Nothing is more complex than simplification; what art takes from enigma it more than replenishes in the instantiation of itself, in the labyrinthine puzzle it plants in history. The intensification of enigma. The luxuriantly problematic loam of existence is built out of the sedimented aeons of residues deposited by the will to power, the impulse to create.