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Quotes About Existence

When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.
~ M. J. Ryan
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I am thankful to God for the grace of being alive.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.
~ Al Capone
God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.
~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Time is a mind construct. It's not real.
~ Prince
There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
~ Anaximander
Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.
~ Frank Gehry
Maybe this one moment, with this one person, is the very reason we're here on Earth at this time.
~ Jean Watson
Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.
~ Richard Bach
In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.
~ Mary Oliver
I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.
~ George Balanchine
Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.
~ Elif Safak
You only live once, for a very short time. So make every second divine.
~ Mitch Lucker
It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?
~ Mansur Al-Hallaj
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
~ Socrates
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
~ Immanuel Kant
When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life.
~ Joan D. Chittister
All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
~ Prince Charles
Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.
~ Julio Cortazar
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.
~ Mircea Eliade