Quotes About Existence

Nothing keeps. There is one law in the universe: NOW.

Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.

What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.

Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.

A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.

Enjoy the now. Time flies, enjoy it while you can.

After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die.

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.

Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.

Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.

What were you supposed to do, talking to a hologram of a dead man, when a younger version of that man was still alive? Should you offer condolences? Jordan decided that really wasn't necessary.

And this is why people believe in God, isn't it? Jonah wondered. Because we can tell there's something bigger out there that we're part of. Because we can tell that there's something more to all of us, and more to all of our lives.