All Quotes By Tag: Existence
“I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.”
“Time is the wealth through which everything comes into existence.”
“Everything in existence comes from time”
“I lose the grip of time when I search for its delusional existence.”
“+ It’s a small fraction of world population – about 0.000000303 percent – but it seems like plenty to you.+ You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But one one listens or symphathizes with you, because this is what you chose when you where alive.+ You choice to slide down the intelligence ladder is irreversible.+ Sometimes we listen and pay attention to the plot of the dream. More often we talk among ourselves and wait for our shift to end.+ Much of your existence took place in the eyes, ears, and fingertips of others. The mirrors are held up in front of you.”
“She was the stars and the heavens and the oceans. There was nothing but that single fragment of time, and this bud of love we had planted inside it. And then, at some point after it started, the kiss ended, and I stroked her hair, and the church bells rang in the distance and everything in the world was in alignment.”
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“Sunday owes its existence to the other days in the week.”
“We swim against―our own sweet moments― lappingthe hours in expanded pleasuresthat swagger away― our wilting sentience―pretending to be― existent―”
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“This evening, which I have tried to spirit away, is a strange burden to me. While time moves on, while the day will soon end and I already wish it gone, there are men who have entrusted all their hopes to it, all their love and their last efforts. There are dying men or others who are waiting for a debt to come due, who wish that tomorrow would never come. There are others for whom the day will break like a pang of remorse; and others who are tired, for whom the night will never be long enough to give them the rest that they need. And I – who have lost my day – what right do I have to wish that tomorrow comes?”
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“And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations. Our destiny … is not frightful by being unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and iron-clad. Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.”
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“The part of life we really live is small.’ For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”
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“I don’t need a priest or a philosopher to tell me how to feel alive.”
“Love is the power that can change your entire existence.”
“Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.”
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