Quotes About Existence

It's great being dead.

me guess. Now you quote from the bible and try to convert me to your religion." "The Creator of all doesn't get as hung up on religion as some people do," said Mathew.

What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.

For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.

Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality.

Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory.

Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.

My penance for barely being present in the world, not the world between the pages of books, or the layered atmosphere of my own mind, but the world that is real to others

I dreamed I was somewhere that was also nowhere.

Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory. — Patti Smith, M Train (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015)

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine. I had written the line before as a declaration of existence, as a vow to take responsibility for my own actions.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine." I had written the line some years before as a declaration of existence, as a vow to take responsibility for my own actions. Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.

Having no past we have only present and future. We would all like to believe that we came from nowhere but ourselves, every gesture is our own. But then we find we belong to the history and fate of a long line of beings that also may have wished to be free

Varför skriver vi? En kör av röster väller fram. För att vi inte bara kan leva.

Hey, sister. What's your situation?" "On earth or in the universe?" He laughed and said, "All right!

They had no communal mythology; no tales of treason, treasure, and snow forts. It was a safe existence but not a fairy-tale one.

Robert morente, creava il silenzio. Io, destinata alla vita, prestai ascolto a un silenzio che avrebbe richiesto un'esistenza intera per trovare le parole.

Mothers,fathers,our kind,tell me again that death doesn't matter.Tell me it's just a limitation of vision ,a fold of landscape,a deep flax-and-poppy-filled gully hidden on the hill, pleat in our perception a somersault of existence,natural,even beneficent even a gift,the only key to the red-lacquered door at the end of the hall,"water within water," those old stories.

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

Every single breath you take contains the history of the galaxy.

Mom points at the gravesites all around us. "We all die, Lucy. Me. You. Everybody. But you know what we do first?" I shake my head. "We pretend that it's not going to happen. We make believe that we're never going to die. do you know what that's called?" "Lying?" I say. "Living, Lucy. It's called living...

Just being alive - even if you're only on the planet for a few years - is struggle enough. You've earned the right to be remembered.

They lived in abysmal misery, yet they had no prospect of a better tomorrow. They existed under capitalism, yet there was no accumulation of capital.

Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.