Quotes About Existence

You may be ignorant of His presence at the time, but that doesn't mean He doesn't exist. If you look, you will find that He was there all along. You can know that God exists.

It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence.

Nothingness is not nothing at all, so it is physical, but not in the sense of constant presence. Nothingness is disturbing. It is there in a mind-independent sense; it is part of what is given.

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

I'm from the future, I'm from the past, but I'm also from the present, because I'm a gift.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

Presenting myself and my gender is about my right to exist.

All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.

It's presumptuous for us to think we are the only beings in the cosmos.

Being is like pretending.

Some people want to live in a world much prettier than the one I depict. But it exists, and I talk about it because it exists.