Quotes About Existence

There are some people who are so cold and unfeeling, like reflections in a mirror, that they might as well be imaginary.

such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be.

Yes! a gay life and a short one, then out with the lights and down with the curtain!

Innocent and ignorant as she was, the books she had read gave her some hints of the existence of sin and her woman's nature warned her when no other voice was near to save.

How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.

What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.

This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.

We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don't know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.

Here I am Where I ought to be

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

The world can go on without me. Here I shall be held by love.

Ever since I understood this life was to be mine, I have wanted only for it to continue in its precious routine.

He said that while Clemence adored the sacrament, he meditated on how it could be possible that humans had evolved out of apes only to sit gaping at a round white cracker.

For what is a man, what are we all, but bits of time caught for a moment in a tangle of blood, bones, skin, and brain? She was time. Mauser was time. I am a sorry bit of time myself. We are time's containers. Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.

don't know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.

Perhaps you will know how to speak this language--perhaps it is a language we have forgotten in its present form. Perhaps you are dreaming in this language right now. And perhaps there is a word that has changed the course of human existence. A word written in the depth of things, in the quantum and genetic and synaptic codes, a word that told all beings and all life--enough.

For all these years no one has known and no one seems to have cared how it came into existence.

The next day is Saturday. Like that matters. Like every day isn't just about identical for somebody like me.

But as Rachel watched the sheriff enter the front door, it was hard to believe the farmhouse itself was still there, because a place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world. The earth itself shouldn't be able to abide it.

Something would happen or it wouldn't happen, and that was the way of it.

All we'll ever need is within each other, Serena said, her voice barely more than a whisper. Even when we have our child, it will only be an image of what we already are.

The church did not exist in Old Testament times. Matthew 16:18 cites Jesus saying that He would build His church. This indicates that the church did not yet exist.