Quotes About Existence

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart.

We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure - the eternal present, for it is always now.

I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.

There is a reason for everything. You might not be able to figure it out, and time might have made us all forget it, but the reason is there all the same.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Wake up! Time to die!

I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever?

Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Everyone you see is you in a different time & space.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.

The living moment is everything.

But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!

Light is time thinking about itself.

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.