Quotes About Existence

Nu echter weet ik wat ik mis. Ik weet: mijn uren zouden van elkaar te onderscheiden moeten zijn. Ik kan ze nergens aan meten. Er is geen schaal. Geen enkel voorval markeert mijn tijd. Ik verstrijk dus tegenwoordig zelf.

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

Indeed, the bold, almost primitive, architecture of the CN Tower may reveal a basic truth about Canadian political existence as a perfect ideological symbol of the "technological nationalism" which has always been the essence of the Canadian state, and, most certainly, the locus of the Canadian identity.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

He had always told her that there was only one existence, one science, one religion, that the external world was but a variegated shadow which might either conceal or reveal the truth; and now she believed. He had shewn her that bodily rapture might be the ritual and expression of the ineffable mysteries, of the world beyond sense, that must be entered by the way of sense; and now she believed.

So, day after day, he lived in the grey phantasmal world, akin to death, that has, somehow, with most of us, made good its claim to be called life.

She often used to think of the strangeness of very early life; one came, it seemed, from a dark cloud, there was a glow of light, but for a moment, and afterwards the night. It was as if one gazed at a velvet curtain, heavy, mysterious, impenetrable blackness, and then, for the twinkling of an eye, one spied through a pin-hole a storied town that flamed, with fire about its walls and pinnacles. And then again the folding darkness, so that sight became illusion, almost in the seeing.

Otuz y?ld?r," diye devam etti, "gerçeklerle boÄŸuÅŸuyorum; ÅŸimdi düÅŸ zaman?.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

I knew I had looked into the eyes of a lost soul, Austin, the man's outward form remained, but all hell was within it.

all these are but dreams and shadows; the shadows that hide the real world from our eyes.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

The processes revealed by the sciences, especially evolutionary biology, are in themselves God-acting-as-creator. There is no need to look for God as some kind of additional factor supplementing the processes of the world. God, to use language usually applied in sacramental theology, is "in, with, and under" all-that-is and all-that-goes-on

But the reality of power—a field of study Ezzedine had ignored, even as he benefited from it—could not be denied infinitely. He would be subject to its immutable laws whether he studied them or pretended they didn't exist.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?

La vraie vie est absente. Nous ne sommes pas au monde.

True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

What will happen to the world when you leave it? Nothing, in any case, will remain of what is now visible.

Nous ne pouvons savoir ! - Nous sommes accablés D'un manteau d'ignorance et d'étroites chimères ! Singes d'hommes tombés de la vulve des mères, Notre pâle raison nous cache l'infini ! Nous voulons regarder : - le Doute nous punit ! Le doute, morne oiseau, nous frappe de son aile... - Et l'horizon s'enfuit d'une fuite éternelle !...

I saw that all living things were doomed, to bliss: that's not living; it's just a way to waste what we have, a drain.