Quotes about Existence
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
— DH Lawrence
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
— Seneca
We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.
— Shane Claiborne
Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death.
— Shane Claiborne
If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.
— RC Sproul
Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
— Emily Bronte
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
— Florence Nightingale
And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
— Jack Kerouac
I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.
— Jane Goodall
Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.
— Jean Baptiste Massillon
Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
— John Milton
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
— Albert Einstein