Quotes about Existence
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
Today is the only time we can possibly live.
— Dale Carnegie
Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.
— Deepak Chopra
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.
— St. Augustine
Notice to step out of time into eternity.
— Leonard Ravenhill
I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.
— Joseph Brodsky