Quotes About Existence

An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a type of thing for which symbols were inadequate, and so names were invented. I am invented.

Very few suspect the existence of this city. It is as if not only the media but the laws of perspective themselves have redesigned knowledge and perception to pass it by. Rumor says there is practically no power here. Neither television cameras nor on-the-spot broadcasts function: that such a catastrophe as this should be opaque, and therefore dull, to the electric nation! It is a city of inner discordances and retinal distortions.

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.

It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now.

Life is a very terrible thing, mostly, with points of wonder and beauty. Most of what makes it terrible, though, is simply that there's so much of it, blaring in through the five senses.

By many a temple half as old as Time.

It's what I've always said. To be alive is a reflection on one's character.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

In looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering through the dewy window-pane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking for, a symbolical language for something within me that already and forever exists, than observing anything new.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

If being horrible was a mortal condition, then this whole world would be a grave.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous.

Each moment of life is a step toward death.

Time seemed to do that thing everyone knew was impossible. It stood still.

How it can be, that Ice Cream ain't existing anywhere. Will be no me to know that I ain't there.

How it can be, that Ice Cream ain't existing anywhere. Will be no me to know I ain't there.

Tara is the spiritual daughter of Avalokitesvara. She is usually either white or green in colour, and according to another beautiful legend she was born from the tears of Avalokitesvara as he wept over the sorrows of existence. In the midst of a great pool of his tears there appeared a white lotus. The lotus opened, and there was Tara , the very essence, indeed the quintessence, of compassion.

the world can still exist without god but it cannot survive without love.

For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.

The moment you realize yourself as the dreamer and the world as your own dream, you will attain salvation.

There are many different types of crime like infanticide, homicide, matricide, killing of cows etc. But not acknowledging the existence of God in all living beings, makes one guilty of the most terrible crime of killing the indweller God who resides in all beings.

Jíj bent je leven. Dus je leven is waar je bent.