Tag: Existence
Don’t I?
“I do exist, don’t I? It often feels as if I’m not here, that I’m a figment of my own imagination. There are days when I feel so lightly connected to the earth that the threads that tether me to the planet are gossamer thin, spun sugar. A strong gust of wind could dislodge me completely, and I’d lift off and blow away, like one of those seeds in a dandelion clock.”
— Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Stay Alive
“What do you need to do to stay alive?”
— Charles E. Cobb Jr., This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
All By Myself
“I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.”
— Fernando Pessoa
Above an Abyss
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
— Vladamir Nabokov (via WeCroak)
Time Exists
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”
— Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
The Horror
The horror of being seen or heard, or any other reminder of your objective existence.”
Lisa Marie Blair 