Existential Moment Quotes

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a flickering sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature - fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.

Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Sam: For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else.