Existence Quotes

"Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist." "Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom." "The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him." "The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead." "The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself." "We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." "The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague" "I cannot live without my soul" "Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another" "The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death" "We inhabit a language rather than a country" "I am not sure that I exist actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited" "Time is the substance I am made of Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire" "Human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light" "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror But you are eternity and you are the mirror" "When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?" "We are part of this universe. We are in this universe. But perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us" "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you" "Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive." "We are an impossibility in an impossible universe"