Quotes about Existence

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night.

Being is the great explainer.