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Quotes About Existence

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
~ Orhan Pamuk
It's all too much and not enough at the same time.
~ Jack Kerouac
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
~ Mario Benedetti
Everywhere is here and every when is now.
~ Dante Alighieri
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
~ Paul Ricoeur
What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.
~ Osamu Tezuka
And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
~ Charles Bukowski
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
~ Ray Kurzweil
This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.
~ Erin Morgenstern
Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
~ Therese of Lisieux
I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time
~ George Strait
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.
~ Daniel Pinchbeck
Time means little; I never notice its passing.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
~ Art Buchwald
Your heart beats 72 times a minute. Every time it beats, it does so with the permission of its Creator.
~ Khurram Murad
Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
~ Samuel Beckett
Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.
~ Paul Cezanne
I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.
~ Fernando Pessoa
time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time.
~ Gosho Aoyama
For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
~ Osbert Sitwell
Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.
~ Emmanuel Levinas