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Quotes About Existence

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
~ Barbara De Angelis
What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. Theyare to be happy in: Where can we live but days?
~ Philip Larkin
Time and space are only forms of thought.
~ E. Nesbit
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
~ Sri Aurobindo
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
~ Franz Kafka
You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.
~ Jordan Knight
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.
~ Albert Einstein
Time is but a thought, a means of measurement, not a reality.
~ Antiphon
The world, our world, has existed since night of time, yet every day we must recreate it. If we did not walk upon the earth, it would not exist.
~ Breyten Breytenbach
Aside from Velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe.
~ Dave Barry
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
~ T. S. Eliot
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
~ William Butler Yeats
Time is what death needs to grow people in.
~ William S. Burroughs
There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!
~ Kabir
Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.
~ Ken Wilber
The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
~ Martha Graham
Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.
~ Moses Mendelssohn
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
I sometimes think that there is nothing but time, that what you see and what you feel is what time looks like at that moment.
~ Paul Thek
Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.
~ Phyllis Bottome
Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.
~ Freya Stark