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Quotes About Existence

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.
~ Ram Dass
You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.
~ Ram Dass
Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.
~ Richard Henry Stoddard
In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.
~ Richard Stallman
Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness
~ Elif Safak
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
~ Emile M. Cioran
We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
~ Emile M. Cioran
I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
~ Epictetus
There is One Infinite Spirit and every time man says, "I am" he proclaims it.
~ Ernest Holmes
They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they have.
~ Frederick Lenz
When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.
~ Graham Greene
I believe every day when I wake up and go to bed and during my dreaming time there's some moment of truth that's in front of me that will always be in front of me until the end of days.
~ Harvey Keitel
How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.
~ John Hartford
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.
~ Jonathan Nolan
God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you sum it all up the result is nothing.
~ Jons Jacob Berzelius
I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.
~ Joseph Brodsky
First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity.
~ Robert Breault
Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.
~ Robert Lanza
I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
~ Roland Barthes
But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.
~ Ruth Ozeki
You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.
~ Sean Faircloth