Quotes About Existence

this day's singular existence in time, the native field flourishing selfishly, only for itself.

Just this morning, I saw seven cardinals brash and bold as sin in a leafless tree. I let them be for a long while before I shook the air and screwed it all up just by being alive too.

Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes on. And so it will be with all the works of art that now exist; an eternal veil of forgetfulness will lie over them, just as there is now over those things that came before.

We forget most of our past but embody all of it.

people don't entertain you, / Nature will"—is

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

From the exoplanet data, astronomers can now say with confidence that one out of every five stars hosts a world where life as we know it could form. So, when you're standing out there under the night sky, choose five random stars. Chances are, one of them has a world in its Goldilocks zone where liquid water could be flowing across its surface and life might already exist.

you have taken part in the only really majestic choice we get to make in life, which is to continue it.

But the tree represents the freedom that God gives human beings to choose God's way or another way. God deemed the ability to choose to be an essential part of human existence.

I had never understood before the invisibility of a human. How what we take to be a person is in fact a spirit we can never see.

We live among the dead until we join them,

How narrowly we all avoid having never been.

We'd become friends, of the sort men often are, in that we daily confirmed each other's existence but pretty much left it at that.

the motion of our blood could almost stop, our bodies be laid to sleep, but somehow the soul be kept alive. Simply by the things we saw and heard, in any given moment

what did it mean, then, when his story was nothing, just a suggestion of a life?

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

The truth is, though, that you don't need to die to know what it's like to be a ghost.

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

So listen to them, heed them. Who never touch the Earth, can never be in Heaven

?y?am na ?wiecie; lecz, ach! nie dla ?wiata! My?l moja, nazbyt skrzydlata, Nigdy na ziemskiej nie spocz??a b?oni.

Hej, u?yjmy ?ywota! Wszak ?yjem tylko raz;

Look at a wild creature- even hold it in your hand- and it is obvious that you don't 'have' it. You hold it but everything it is stretches far beyond your enclosing fingers, in time and space and through its own interior existence. You may posess it, even for a moment, but it is not yours... Whatever it is to be known remains outside the grip of our knowing it.

indeed that is what our lives are, a project of recovery and restitution; or we have to ironize our always wanting to get something back that we never had and that never existed anyway

The only satisfactions available are the satisfactions of reality, which are themselves frustrating.