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Quotes About Existence

I don't know a thing yet, and I haven't lived. I'm starting to now, aren't I? No, you're asleep, you're always asleep.
~ Alice Notley
I can no longer find any rationale for living. My life is as small as a firefly's. I am always uncomfortable; often I suffer.
~ Alice Notley
I create death, and time.
~ Alice Notley
All I feel is the tingle of this existence, or non-existence
~ Alice Notley
the litup soul/self I have been From time to time I can't remember
~ Alice Notley
you stepped outside time to find me. But you are the inventor of time and you will go back.
~ Alice Notley
I didn't mean to be born.
~ Alice Notley
Have I come from another world to inhabit this body of mine?
~ Alice Notley
Bodiless we don't suffer: in a dream we aren't hungry, don't mourn you.
~ Alice Notley
We were ALways in this other time.
~ Alice Notley
somewhere you know but never quite remember
~ Alice Notley
but I know I never really arrive.
~ Alice Notley
I am a skeleton. I have a skull with an artifice of fire in its eyes.
~ Alice Notley
We go where we live—there is nowhere else.
~ Alice Notley
Which one of us was more? He was always more.
~ Alice Notley
A world like a boat passing by, and perhaps another on the dark water.
~ Alice Notley
I want to live here, where nothing coheres. Who'd be in ordinary life, working or shopping, looking forward to whatever it turns out it's about
~ Alice Notley
I don't know what's the point of it, being
~ Alice Notley
Though Here's so total.
~ Alice Notley
Evaporated I've never been there.
~ Alice Notley
I'm not who I thought I'm not there or here
~ Alice Notley
We are the ones there are, and will always be.
~ Alice Notley
I'm the being for whom nothing happens: now nothing happens to you.
~ Alice Notley
In those days we weren't always singular, but rode the sea of consciousness like bubbles overlapped.
~ Alice Notley