Quotes About Existence

Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.

Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.

Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

There was a time when He was not.

I guess that's all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.

Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.

The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.