Quotes about Existence
That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.
- Samuel Beckett
Nothing to be done. I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.
- Samuel Beckett
What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.
- Samuel Beckett
If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
- Samuel Beckett
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
- Samuel Beckett
God is a witness that cannot be sworn.
- Samuel Beckett
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!
- Samuel Johnson
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
- Milan Kundera
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.
- CS Lewis
The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.
- CS Lewis
Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
- CS Lewis