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245. “Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.”
Sylvia Plath
Temporal Passage, Mortality, Fleeting Moments, Existence, Fleeting Joy, Emotional Struggle
264. “You can’t make people joyous just by being joyous yourself. Joy has to be generated by oneself: it is or it isn’t. Joy is founded on something too profound to be understood and communicated. To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.” Henry Miller Joy, Happiness, Life, Isolation, Existence, Personal-growth
266. “We ought to remind ourselves daily, repeat it like a litany, that in our being lies concealed the whole gamut of existence... Above all, we should cease postponing the act of becoming what in fact and essence we are.” Henry Miller Self-realization, Existence, Philosophy, Being, Potential, Truth
269. “I shall be the wild park in the midst of the nightmare of perfection, the still, unshakeable dream in the midst of frenzied activity, the random shot on the white billiard table of logic, I shall know neither how to weep nor protest, but I shall be there always in absolute silence to receive and to restore.” Henry Miller Perfection, Silence, Existence, Chaos, Reflection, Balance
Existence Quotes by Famous Authors
245. “Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.”
Sylvia Plath Temporal Passage, Mortality, Fleeting Moments, Existence, Fleeting Joy, Emotional Struggle
264. “You can’t make people joyous just by being joyous yourself. Joy has to be generated by oneself: it is or it isn’t. Joy is founded on something too profound to be understood and communicated. To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.”
Henry Miller Joy, Happiness, Life, Isolation, Existence, Personal-growth
266. “We ought to remind ourselves daily, repeat it like a litany, that in our being lies concealed the whole gamut of existence... Above all, we should cease postponing the act of becoming what in fact and essence we are.”
Henry Miller Self-realization, Existence, Philosophy, Being, Potential, Truth
269. “I shall be the wild park in the midst of the nightmare of perfection, the still, unshakeable dream in the midst of frenzied activity, the random shot on the white billiard table of logic, I shall know neither how to weep nor protest, but I shall be there always in absolute silence to receive and to restore.”
Henry Miller Perfection, Silence, Existence, Chaos, Reflection, Balance
