Quotes about Existence

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry, and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

There was no Time, only Space. Who could say his mother had lived and did not live? She had been in one place, and was in another, that was all. And his soul could not leave her, wherever she was. Now she was gone abroad into the night, and he was with her still. They were together.

When did one come to an end? In which direction was it finished? There was no end, no finish, only this roaring vast space. Did one never get old, never die? That was the clue.

In the end, the soul is alone brooding on the face of the uncreated flux, as a bird on a dark sea...

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots

Each of us inevitable, Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth, Each of us allow'd the eternal purports of the earth, Each of us here as divinely as any is here.

Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.