Quotes About Existence

That is the present: an emanation of memory bouncing on the illusion of the future

One day you will understand why our prophet said that heaven is under the feet of mothers. Because they suffer so much in delivering humanity into existence.

The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.

Despiertan a la vida todo lo que está anquilosado en el ser humano.

I deny everything and affirm naught but myself: because the sole truth of which I have material and moral proof and tangible, comprehensible and intelligible evidence, the only real, startling, non-arbitrary truth not susceptible to interpretation, is myself. I am. There I have a positive fact. Everything else is abstraction and, in mathematics, would be designated as "x", and unknown quantity; and I need not trouble myself with it.

But we may well ask, who are the players in these imaginary orchestras, exactly? And here is the answer: the objects and events in the world around our organisms, actually present or recalled from memory, and the objects and events in the world inside.

No hay ser, en el sentido propio del término, sin una experiencia mental espontánea de la vida, sin una sensación de existencia.

You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was.

What is the basic difference between saying 'I know that God exists' and saying 'I know that love exists'?

Trade and gambling and a woman occasionally - that was a mans life.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now to where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition, for all you do is see for the first time what you have always been looking at. Who ever heard of a path that brings you to yourself or a method that makes you what you have always been? Spirituality, after all, is only a matter of becoming what you really are.

God does not die on the day we cease to believe in a personal deity. But we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance of wonder renewed daily, the source of which is beyond all reason.

The unaware life is not worth living.

Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it like clouds across the sky?

Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it.

I am only alive because I have not yet died.

The world as it is is enough.

The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness.

You can cling to this world for a thousand years and still be plucked out of it in a breath.

He marveled at the indifference of the world, the way it kept on, despite everything.

The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness. That's God's truth.

German sailors sing a drunken song in the street, and a house spider over the stove spins a new web every night, and to Marie-Laure this is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun.

Why, Esther wonders, do any of us believe our lives lead outward through time? How do we know we aren't continually traveling inward, toward our centers? Because this is how it feels to Esther when she sits on her deck in Geneva, Ohio, in the last spring of her life; it feels as if she is being drawn down some path that leads deeper inside, toward a miniature, shrouded, final kingdom that has waited within her all along.