Quotes about Existence
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
— William Faulkner
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
— CS Lewis
It's all too much and not enough at the same time.
— Jack Kerouac
Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
— William Faulkner
Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
— Marcus Aurelius
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
— Samuel Beckett
That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.
— Samuel Beckett
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
— Walt Whitman
This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.
— Francis Schaeffer
God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays.
— AW Tozer
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
— Albert Camus