Quotes About Existence

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Si longue que soit la vie, elle n'est qu'un long retard de la mort

He's not a man, he's a machine.

Yet it puzzled me that no one around me seemed to take God very seriously. We neither believed nor disbelieved. He was our oldest habit.

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.

Acaso el último y verdadero sentido de la creación del artista consista en extender un velo sobre el sinsentido de la vida.

One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine event,To which the whole creation moves.

A still small voice spake unto me,"Thou art so full of misery,Were it not better not to be?"

Flower in the crannied wall,I pluck you out of the crannies,I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,Little flower—but if I could understandWhat you are, root and all, and all in all,I should know what God and man is.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Ah, whyShould life all labor be?

I am a part of all I have seen.

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

Each creative act is the universe incarnating itself as one, and there is nothing above it by way of final condition.

The mountain endures. But when after ages it has worn away, it has gone. If a replica arises, it is yet a new mountain. A colour is eternal. It haunts time like a spirit. It comes and it goes. But where it comes, it is the same colour. It neither survives nor does it live.

Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.

Explicitly in the verbal sentence, or implicitly in the understanding of the subject entertaining it, every expression of a proposition includes demonstrative elements. In fact each word, and each symbolic phrase, is such an element, exciting the conscious prehension of some entity belonging to one of the categories of existence.

The universe is neither centered on earth nor the sun. It is centered on God.

No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

All his life he had realised that his senses brought to him merely a more or less interesting set of sham appearances; that space, as men measure it, was utterly misleading; that time, as the clock ticked it in a succession of minutes, was arbitrary nonsense; and, in fact, that all his sensory perceptions were but a clumsy representation of real things behind the curtain—things he was for ever trying to get at, and that sometimes he actually did get at.

Other life pulsed about them — and was gone.

For one single second I understood clearly that the past and the future exist actually side by side in one immense Present; that it was I who moved to and fro among shifting, protean appearances.