Quotes about Existence
A creature is not a creator, and cannot be. There is only one Creation, and we are its members.
— Wendell Berry
To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
— Wendell Berry
Love in this world doesn't come out of thin air. It is not something thought up. Like ourselves, it grows out of the ground. It has a body and a place.
— Wendell Berry
The value of land, like the value of a life, is unreckonable and absolute.
— Wendell Berry
But the earth speaks to us of Heaven, or why would we want to go there? If we knew nothing of Hell, how would we delight in Heaven should we get there?
— Wendell Berry
I saw that, for me, this country would always be populated with presences and absences, presences of absences, the living and the dead. The world as it is would always be a reminder of the world that was, and of the world that is to come.
— Wendell Berry
it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
— Wendell Berry
My Mind became the root of my life rather than its sublimation.
— Wendell Berry
Bewildered in our timely dwelling place, Where we arrive by work, we stay by grace.
— Wendell Berry
There is no was.
— William Faulkner
It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.
— William Faulkner
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
— William Faulkner