existence Quotes

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.