Quotes About Existence

People are living too much or too little, and I wondered if anyone out there is living the right amount.

Okay, let's say that a metamove or metagesture is when the author intentionally draws attention to a work's genre, its very existence as fiction or nonfiction.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

The point is that all of life is "pointless"—vanity or emptiness—unless something else is involved that transcends the pointlessness.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.

I used to be a guy who was experiencing the Universe, but now I feel like the Universe experiencing a guy

And I wondered, who is it that's aware that I'm thinking? And suddenly I was thrown into this amazing feeling of freedom. I was no longer a fragment of the universe, I was the universe." ~Jim Carrey

We're going six thousand miles an hour around the sun and nobody's driving this bitch!" said Gary Busey from the woods, where, for his own reasons, he was halfway up an eighty-foot pine tree.

We don't matter. There's the good news.

There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

when I die the wind will still blow and the stars still shine, for the place I occupy on earth is no more permanent than the water I now make

The days are stacked against what we think we are.

It's very difficult to look at the World and into your heart at the same time. In between, a life has passed.

I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

LIFE HAS NO PLOT, WHY MUST FILMS OR FICTION?

It's a sad and beautiful world.

Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.

It is a sad and beautiful world.

What has prepared Heather for her life in the Burrow? Sleep, being hit over the head once in sixth grade and losing consciousness for a minute, waking up to find out someone had pushed her off the swings. A life made of air

Twilight souls, caught somewhere between dark and light, knowing and unknowing. Neither one thing nor another. A crossbreed race.

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.