#existence

How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane? ↗

— Walker Percy

#dreams

We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising. ↗

— Lynn Schooler

#nature-of-things #wind #home

Our interexistence assures that there is an effect for every intention, action, decision and word. For good or for evil, the people we are in both private and in public, take on life or death and collectively create the world we live in. ↗

— Mac MacKenzie

#peace #philosophy #death

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#existence #inevitable-progress #inverse-tower-of-babel #death

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid. ↗

— Aberjhani

#existence #fear #human-nature #change

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#inspirational #purpose #inspirational

Scopul existenței fiecărui individ este plăcerea și cine o contestă ori e ipocrit, ori imbecil. ↗

— Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu

#individuals #men #purpose #men

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#arrogance #cleanses #concern #corrupts #diversity

Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does not exist but it is because you do not believe in it. Even if the sun shines brightly upon your skin every day, if you do not believe in the sunlight, the sunlight for you does not exist. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#belief-quotes #beliefs #believing #disbelief #existence-of-magic

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. ↗

— Robert Burns

#armour #defensive #existence #favourite #i