#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

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

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#hope #inspirational-life #inspirational

Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#existence #inspiration #opportunities #opportunity #synchronicity

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards ↗

— Andrei Tarkovsky

#existentialism #inspirational #suffering #inspirational

I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it. ↗

— David Chalmers

#brain #certain #character #consciousness #contradict

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#cannot #everybody #existence #express #i

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#existence #exists #merely #philosopher #poet

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#commenting #existence #i #into #like