Quotes about Existence

Is not this the broad earth still?

Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be.

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the life-time of his God?

But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it.

It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own. Yet this is nothing; I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?

But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I. By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.

You may say, 'Well, dragons don't exist.' It's, like, yes they do - the category 'predator' and the category 'dragon' are the same category. It absolutely exists. It's a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.