Existence Quotes

"Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are" "Time is the moving image of eternity" "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." "Nothing can happen more beautiful than death." "Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle." "What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?" "The angel would like to stay awaken the dead and make whole what has been smashed But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them" "The complete man is a man who can see play and seriousness, folly and wisdom, as aspects of his existence, and can go joyfully from one to the other." "Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and since this spirit knows itself only through the senses it is to these that it turns whenever it has to test its own self-knowledge." "In this short Life that only lasts an hour how much how little is within our power" "Beauty crowds me till I die beauty mercy have on me" "To love life is to love God" "The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day" "It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different plants, and different conditions, and different stars should all exist for the sake of a single one of us. It seems much more reasonable that it’s not, that the universe is simply indifferent" "There is just one life for each of us: our own" "Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be" "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us" "I hope that my work always gets to the heart of what it means to be human." "We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real" "God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things"