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Quotes About Existence

The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.
~ Chuck Schuldiner
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
~ John Cage
Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.
~ Martin Heidegger
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
~ C. S. Lewis
To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.
~ William James
It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living
~ Ludovico Einaudi
Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
~ Albert Einstein
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.
~ Hafez
So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
~ Stephen Hawking
These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.
~ Van Morrison
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
~ James Thurber, The 13 Clocks
Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
~ Jack London
If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.
~ Mircea Eliade
Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.
~ Stanislav Grof
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
~ A.C. Grayling
The most important time is Now
~ Leo Tolstoy
You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.
~ Herman Hupfeld
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~ William Faulkner
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
~ Albert Einstein
We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time.
~ Edgar Mitchell
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?
~ Rumi