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Quotes About Existence

No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Our universe is not a 'was' or a 'will be' system. It is an 'is' system vibrating within the 'now' measurement of time.
~ Michael Beckwith
I don't have a sense of time. Time is timeless to me, and I'm not in a hurry to get older. I mean, if I were worried about time, all the time, it would be terrible.
~ Nico
The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.
~ P.D. Ouspensky
Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.
~ Paul Leautaud
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
~ Joseph Joubert
Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.
~ Anne Sexton
For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.
~ Anthony Hopkins
Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)
~ Boethius
The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.
~ C. S. Lewis
The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.
~ C. S. Lewis
Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
~ C. S. Lewis
Killing time is not murder, it is suicide.
~ Charles A. Beard
Today is the only time we can possibly live.
~ Dale Carnegie
The field (which is what spirit is, a field of pure potentiality) is a continuum of all possible energy and information states that will subsequently manifest themselves as space-time events.
~ Deepak Chopra
Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.
~ Deepak Chopra
Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.
~ E. Nesbit
Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.
~ Eckhart Tolle
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
~ Bertrand Russell
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
~ Charles Lamb
All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.
~ Elizabeth Smart
Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
~ Thomas Wolfe
If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist.
~ Julian Barbour