Quotes About Existence

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis..

and on forever's very now we stand

how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any–lifted from the no of all nothing–human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

Any apparent somewhere which you may inhabit is always at the mercy of a ruthless and omnivorous everywhere.

the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

whiter than lilies which are born and cease for being whiter than this world)

the trick of finding what you didn't lose (existing's tricky:but to live's a gift) the teachable imposture of always arriving at the place you never left

the trick of finding what you didn't lose (existing's tricky:but to live's a gift) the teachable imposture of always arriving at the place you never left (and i refer to thinking)rests upon a dismal misconception;namely that some neither ape nor angel called a man is measured by his quote eye cue unquote.

death,as men call him,ends what they call men —but beauty is more now than dying's when

Where most people live, most of us, imagining it to be the real sunlit world when it is only a cave lit by the flickering fires of illusion.

Perhaps we all reappear, perhaps all our lives are impositions one on another.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

We may prefer a more primitive analysis: that when you defeat an enemy you are required to eat his heart. In this way is your victory recorded with The Gods. In this way too do The Gods ensure the continuation of their amusement: you consume the heart of your enemy so that it can no longer be said of him that he exists -- except as he exists in you.

And what if neutrinos in their uncountable multitudinous dark-matteredness gravitationally directing the universe . . . are the souls of the dead?

Consciousness without world is impossible, just as there is no sight without the light to see by. Is that your objection

if I moved at the speed of light, I could get no confirmation of my existence from an objective source of reflected lightsuch as a mirror. I would be like a ghost in the universe, materially unverifiable in the stream of time.

After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

Wherever you go, there you are.. (Buckaroo Banzai)

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.

Man made God in his own image...

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.