Quotes About Existence

It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.

We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people.

Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.

I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists that is different from your day-to-day reality.

I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.

I realise, of course, that my cluttered existence is deeply unfashionable.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.