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Quotes About Existence

The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.
~ Ram Dass
Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.
~ Robert Jay Lifton
Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.
~ Robin Williams
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die
~ Rudyard Kipling
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
~ Salman Rushdie
That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.
~ Samuel Beckett
I knew that it wouldn't last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.
~ Sarah Dessen
If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.
~ Shekhar Kapur
Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.
~ Simone Weil
Time does us violence; it is the only violence.
~ Simone Weil
Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.
~ Thom Yorke
A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.
~ Tim O'Brien
A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.
~ Tony Blair
I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.
~ Uri Geller
A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.
~ Vik Muniz
The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
~ Virginia Woolf
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
~ William Law
The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.
~ William S. Burroughs
Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.
~ William S. Burroughs
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
~ William Shakespeare
Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
~ Yann Martel
I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
~ Yann Martel
Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
~ Zora Neale Hurston