Quotes about Existence

But the earth speaks to us of Heaven, or why would we want to go there? If we knew nothing of Hell, how would we delight in Heaven should we get there?

I saw that, for me, this country would always be populated with presences and absences, presences of absences, the living and the dead. The world as it is would always be a reminder of the world that was, and of the world that is to come.

it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

My Mind became the root of my life rather than its sublimation.

Bewildered in our timely dwelling place, Where we arrive by work, we stay by grace.

There is no was.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

Your outside is just what you live in, sleep in, and has little connection with who you are and even less with what you do.

which was no abode of the dead because there was no death, not Lion and not Sam: not held fast in earth but free in earth and not in earth but of earth, myriad yet undiffused of every myriad part, leaf and twig and particle, air and sun and rain and dew and night, acorn oak and leaf and acorn again, dark and dawn and dark and dawn again in their immutable progression and, being myriad, one...

Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep you never were.