Quotes About Existence

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having passed, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

A Poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no Identity—he is continually infor[ming]—and filling some other Body.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - Ode to a Grecian Urn

Call the world if you Please "The vale of Soul-making."

I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights—or if a Sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

1. The consciousness that created the universe dwells within us. 2. We exist in the energy web and are one with it. 3. Consciousness weaves and directs energy. 4. Everything exists for us as a possibility.

You are living simultaneously in two worlds, two realities: the inner reality of your thoughts, emotions and attitudes, and the outer reality of people, places, things and events

It was thus that the keynote of existence was struck for me, one of mirth even in the dark of storm, and that I have since become the oldest man that ever lived, and shall doubtless continue to the end of time to hold the record for longevity, I attribute to nothing else than that, thanks to my father's droll humor, I was born smiling.

I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.

I love the place, and when they get love down to a bunch of factors you can analyse with a computer therell be nothing left of whatever makes it worth being human!

onism n. the awareness of how little of the world you'll experience

lumus the poignant humaness beneath the spectacle of society.

I want to keep the emptiness away, to realize the Sense of what it's like to be alive instead of just existing.

Time is the currency of our life—how we spend it defines our existence.

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

To give your life is one thing; to do it for a gesture is another; but to do it for a gesture you know is meaningless is a desolate trick of fate.

You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff. Stuff was just stuff. You couldn't live by it or for it.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...