Existence Quotes

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.

~ Ashim Shanker

At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?

~ Ashim Shanker

The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.

~ Allie Burke

Immortal existence..Sometimes Living is not such an easy task..Being here or there..The spirit is the same.. Only changes the place where shows..Here, the make-up is of meat.. There is infinite LIGHT..In the flesh, or out of it , what does order is what thinks and what creates..Each thought, a vibration..Each action, a reaction..That doesn't change with the death of the body.. Because actually nobody dies..We are immortal divine existences.. Believing or not..So many lives.. So many experiences..So many faces.. So many dreams..To each life new opportunities.. New learnings..The soul Request.. Thirsty to experiment, feels, develop, evolve, grow and so it goes..The spirit Obeys.. Enters and exit the perishable bodies..Gets right and misses.. rehearses, Conquers and proceeds..The spirit is a gift of the architect of the universe for the benefit of all..It's light.. it's love.. it's eternal..In the Astral or in the Earth.. There is to educate the thought and to clean the energies around yourself..Gives some work to do that spiritual maintenance, but it is worthwhile.It is Light that cleans the Light!So never forget you are imperishable consciousness..May a light circle involves and illuminate each soul..Much light and love in each heart that pulses in the heart of the whole..Namaste,Dave

~ Dave Zebian

Sometimes, meu amor, we lose too much time asking ourselves questions that we can’t answer and forgetting that the answer is just beside us. You have to learn to ask and to listen. If one does not listen, the other does not exist. When the other does not exist, one is alone. I don’t want to be alone, do you?

~ Cristiane Serruya

I am trying to find a midway between Buddha and Brutal Existence.

~ Ashlecka Aumrivani

Love transports mortal beings to the existential plane of spiritual eternity transcending the emotional, mental, and physical limitations of an inaccurately perceived finite existence.

~ Ken Poirot

Creation of mankind, the power of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are all part of divinity. All mankind are divine.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.

~ Nicole Krauss

I wonder now if [the gods] take from us that which we love so we must seek them, if only to scavenge for meaning in this existence.

~ Tosca Lee

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.

~ Álvaro De Campos

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.

~ Julian Barnes

They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space--atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there forever, from the whole world, from all time.

~ Nadine Gordimer

Embrace the sacredness of existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Passionate embrace your sacred existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Or is it the case that no one gets over anything? Is there really that much pain and suffering continuing right now at this minute, in millions of hearts, in bodies carrying on the burden of existence, trying to smile through tears for fleeting, passing moments here and there-when they can forget what happened to them, maybe even for whole hours at a time? Maybe that's what it is to live.

~ Koethi Zan

Your birth is existence breathing out. Your life is the conversation with a message. Your death is existence breathing in.

~ Franklin Gillette

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

They say I don’t exist. They say I am an extension, an indulgence, imagination of a schizophrenic person.

~ Faiz Shaikh

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

~ Nelson Rodrigues

Reality cannot breathe without imagination.

~ Lionel Suggs

I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.

~ Stephen Chbosky

As with most dreams of men, the ideal becomes just that––an ideal––and the pure rationale of existence is thrust upon the best of the dreamers.

~ Katlyn Charlesworth

Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

~ Maya Angelou

Bunnu was no amateur when it came to escape. And even in his drowsiest moments, he understood implicitly that to forget his circumstances, even for a short while, meant first to forget himself. Who he was and why he was—to strip it all bare and start from scratch, as it were. In his nearly 250 years of life and, now, as an old emaciated man completely estranged from his family and closest friends—albeit more by circumstance than by choice—he understood the importance of this process and revered it, for there were far greater things to be done and achieved in the dark, uncertain areas of existence than in those circumscribed—and thereby strained—by comprehensibility.

~ Ashim Shanker

Is it all just a psychotic dream? What is life?

~ Moonshine Noire

It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace has no before, after, or now

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream.

~ Thomas Carlyle

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

~ Vera Nazarian

He's a real nowhere man,Sitting in his Nowhere Land,Making all his nowhere plansfor nobody.Doesn't have a point of view,Knows not where he's going to,Isn't he a bit like you and me?

~ The Beatles

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Memory is that element in our consciousness that connects the past with the present. If we had no memory, there would be only one moment of our life, the moment we call now, and we would never consciously recognize more than this single moment.

~ Gustaf Stromberg

Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.

~ Johnny Rich

What is this 'I'? If you analyse it closely you will, I think, find that it is just a little bit more than a collection of single data (experiences and memories), namely the canvas upon which they are collected. And you will, on close introspection, find that what you really mean by 'I' is that ground-stuff upon which they are collected. You may come to a distant country, lose sight of all your friends, may all but forget them; you acquire new friends, you share life with them as intensely as you ever did with your old ones. Less and less important will become the fact that, while living your new life, you still recollect the old one. 'The youth that was I', you may come to speak of him in the third person, indeed the protagonist of the novel you are reading is probably nearer to your heart, certainly more intensely alive and better known to you. Yet there has been no intermediate break, no death. And even if a skilled hypnotist succeeded in blotting out entirely all your earlier reminiscences, you would not find that he had killed you. In no case is there a loss of personal existence to deplore. Nor will there ever be.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

Nature never remembers, that’s why she’s beautiful.

~ Alberto Caeiro

Death does not end my life, it opens the door to a life without end.

~ J.r. Rim