Quotes about Existence
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
If things are real, they're there all the time.
— CS Lewis
If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.
— Anne Lamott
When humans experience something as powerful as a forest or a rainbow, it is not crazy to assign its existence to a Greater Intelligence.
— Anne Lamott
How alive am I willing to be?
— Anne Lamott
I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist.
— Anne Lamott