Quotes About Existence

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn't imagine it if it weren't real somewhere, sometime.

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence.

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

The only moment ever available to you is the present moment. Everything else is memory or imagination.

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death