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Quotes About Existence

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The hour-hand of life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
O God, how lovely still is life!
~ Friedrich Schiller
We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Life had stepped into the place of theory.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
How, for example, do the aliens pass people through walls? Questions such as this might seem absurd, or suggestive only of observational error or psychosis, to those whose parameters of reality have been limited to
~ John E. Mack
They experience the aliens, indeed their abductions themselves, as happening in another reality, although one that is as powerfully actual to them as – or more so than – the familiar physical world.
~ John E. Mack
Eva wrote, "that our focus should be on mutual communication of some form and on some level with our alien friends, learning, accepting, and integrating alien wisdom within our world and culture. Time, money, and energy spent solely on providing proof of alien existence is fruitless.
~ John E. Mack
Each abductee discovers that he or she is but one intelligent being in a universe populated with various other entities that are not "supposed to" exist.
~ John E. Mack
These interests are reflected in the attachment to the notion that the physical laws we know describe all that is, and that if other beings reside in the cosmos they will behave more or less like
~ John E. Mack
These individuals might believe in the existence of a personal God or a supreme being, yet not find possible the notion that cosmic entities such as these might enter our physical and mental world.
~ John E. Mack
The connection that human beings experience through looking into the eyes of the aliens seems to be a central feature of the acknowledgment of the existence of the beings and the establishment of the bond itself.
~ John E. Mack
needs to be stressed that we do not know if any of the above phenomena exist literally on the purely material plane of reality, despite the apparent physical manifestations, such as perceived pregnancies and hybrid babies.
~ John E. Mack
Yet within our culture, at least for those who determine for us what we are to accept as real, the very existence of this other intelligence, this "something else" that is "interested in us," is difficult to accept. Why should this be so, since every culture from the beginning of recorded time and throughout most of the world, even in our own time, has accepted the existence of other intelligences in the universe?
~ John E. Mack
Karin calls the other reality she perceives during her experiences the "fourth dimension.""It's what we call illusion, but it's not illusion. It's not illusion. It exists. It's there. That's where they live. . . . You don't use language when you're in this other experience. You use color, and you have vibration and everything else." Space/time in this dimension, she says, is "irrelevant.
~ John E. Mack
Lord, how the day passes It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly if we do.
~ John Ernst Steinbeck
See or perish. This is the situation imposed on every element of the universe by the mysterious gift of existence.13
~ John F. Haught