Quotes about Existence

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul.

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and amgels can't love the way men and women do.

Love wasn't rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people's imaginings.

There are those who say that heaven and hell are not so far apart. They are not at opposite ends of the world beyond ours, only a step away from one another.

In my memories I have set my life in Brooklyn between pieces of glass, separate from my current existence, and this has enabled me to move forward. The past cannot tie me in knots, nor can it cause me to drown. And yet what is stored in glass belongs to me still. Each piece is a part of me: the hummingbirds, the locked doors, Mr. Morris in the yard, the pear tree, the woman covered by bees, and you. Especially you.