Quotes About Existence

There are some things no one can bear. I meddled in all the possible futures I could create until, finally, they created me.

Bir geceyi uyan?k geçirmek, ömre bir gün eklemektir.

Any religion circles like a planet around a sun which it must use for its energy, upon which it depends for its very existence. Her voice came barely above a whisper: What do you see in your sun, Lord? A universe of many windows through which I may peer. Whatever the window frames, that is what I see. The future? The universe is timeless at its roots and contains therefore all times and all futures.

But the tripod upon which Eternity swings is composed of flesh and thought and emotion.

And the question of Wester religion," Flattery said, "is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?

I think what a joy it is to be alive, and I wonder if I'll ever leap inward to the root of this flesh and know myself as once I was. The root is there. Whether any act of mine can find it, that remains tangled in the future. But all things a man can do are mine. Any act of mine may do it. —THE GHOLA SPEAKS ALIA'S COMMENTARY

First, as to Time: there is no difference between ten thousand years and one year; no difference between one hundred thousand years and a heartbeat. No difference. That is the first fact about Time. And the second fact: the entire universe with all of its Time is within me.

For the Gowachin, to stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence. — The Gowachin, a BuSab analysis

But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence.

We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

Is consciousness merely a special form of hallucination?

I'm like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness—until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. The thought hung in her mind, an enclosing awareness. And I say: "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?

She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. —PARDOT KYNES, FIRST PLANETOLOGIST OF ARRAKIS

What senses do we lack that we can not see or hear another world all around us?

Paradise on my right, Hell on my left, and the Angel of Death behind.

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: Why is there anything?

the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience. Omens help you remember this. And because you are here, because you have the religion, victory cannot evade you in the end. As

Misterio de la Vida no es un problema que hay que resolver, sino una realidad que hay que experimentar.

mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

To exist is to stand out, away from the background

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All contemporaries do not inhabit the same time.

There was the feeling in him then that his body had become the manifestation of some power he could no longer control. He had become a non-being, a stillness which moved itself. At the core of the non-being, there he existed, allowing himself to be led through the stress of his city, following a track so familiar in his visions that it froze his heart with grief.