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Quotes About Existence

Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.
~ Elif Safak
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
~ Emile M. Cioran
IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.
~ Emily Dickinson
No, I don't believe in the wasting of time, But I don't believe that I'm wasting mine
~ Fiona Apple
Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.
~ Frank Yerby
Our larger body is eternity. Eventually, we return to the source in its undifferentiated form, in its absolute form, which is both form and formlessness, but we exist in that sea all the time.
~ Frederick Lenz
Reincarnation is an apprehension of a movement and the movement occurs in time. Without time, there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation is a reflection of time in this world.
~ Frederick Lenz
As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time.
~ Frederick Lenz
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
~ Gertrude Stein
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
~ Henri Bergson
The cancer of time is eating us away
~ Henry Miller
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.
~ Henry Miller
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
~ Herbert Spencer
You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
~ J. D. Salinger
Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm a million miles away, and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame.
~ Jimi Hendrix
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
~ John Green
You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.
~ John Mott
You have the possibility to give light a dimension in time.
~ Jonas Mekas
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
~ Jonathan Swift
Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?
~ Joyce Carol Oates