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Quotes About Existence

Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.
~ Arthur Koestler
We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
~ Boris Pasternak
If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now
~ C. S. Lewis
The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.
~ Christopher Hitchens
We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.
~ Cornel West
Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.
~ Cynthia Asquith
When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
~ Dallas Willard
In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.
~ David Zindell
We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events.
~ Deepak Chopra
All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.
~ Deepak Chopra
Time is the image of eternity.
~ Diogenes Laertius
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
~ Antonio Porchia
I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.
~ Patti Smith
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.
~ Phil Cousineau
Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
~ Plato
No two men living at the same time live in the same time.
~ Elliott Jaques
There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
~ Emile M. Cioran
the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.
~ Estela Portillo Trambley
His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.
~ Haruki Murakami
The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.
~ Italo Calvino
What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?
~ Jacob Needleman