Quotes About Existence

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

All I'm trying to say is that if you're not willing to observe this, if you're just going to condemn it, you're never going to see it. It's there, whether you like it or not. This is stupid life-force we're dealing with here," he said. "Think how old it is, Jim. Think how huge it is. Understanding it doesn't make any difference.

You will hear your heartbeat again when your life is in rhythm, and there is no doubt that you're doing what you were made to do. That's your heartbeat; that's when you're truly alive and not just existing" I

God created man in His own image," declares Genesis 1:27; "in the image of God He created him." What is the heart of man but a mirror image of the One who breathed it into existence? The mirror may be cracked and marred, but it has not lost its capacity to reflect its Maker. The soul possesses no absolute life of its own. In spite of itself, it bears witness to its dependency upon Another.

The continuum of infinite, immortal Life is occasionally interrupted by a brief stroll into a body of highly limiting thought. Jim Young, Author of 'Aware in a World Asleep' and more!

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

my life is enough to depress the entire universe but I'm the only one living it

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)

Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Maybe I just need to be able to feel the significance of my own existence.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

You don't want anything from them except for them to exist and you to see them sometimes and talk to them, and maybe for them to like you back.

It isn't really magic, except that it is. It's not magic that reaches into the world ands changes things. It's all inside my body. I thought, sitting there, that everything is magic. Using things connects them to you, being in the world connects you to the world, the sun streams down magic and people and animals and plants grow from sunlight and the world turns and everything is magic.

There is no perfection in human things, only in the world of Forms.

We are all inside her head and nowhere else, and of such stuff as dreams are made of. Once she's gone where will we be?

I couldn't be anything. I could barely manage to hold out my shape in the world.

The devil doesn´t exit. That´s what I´d tell them if they asked me. The humanly human exists...the transit.

Deus existe mesmo quando não há. Mas o demônio não precisa de existir para haver – a gente sabendo que ele não existe, aí é que ele toma conta de tudo. O inferno é um sem-fim que nem não se pode ver.

É de notar que o ar vem do ar. De sofrer e amar, a gente não se desafaz.

Viver é muito perigoso, mesmo.

O senhor por ora mal me entende, se é que no fim me entenderá. Mas a vida não é entendível.