--- title: "6 Existence Breath Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 6 Existence Breath quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Existence Breath sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abe/robin-hobb-489_life_he-leaned-forward-eyes-gleaming-with-ent_1123490.jpg" --- > [“He leaned forward, eyes gleaming with enthusiasm. As he spoke, he lifted the kettle from the oil flame and poured steaming water…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-hobb/he-leaned-forward-eyes-gleaming-with-enthusiasm-as-he-spoke-he-lifted/) [Robin Hobb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-hobb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abe/robin-hobb-489_life_he-leaned-forward-eyes-gleaming-with-ent_1123490.jpg) > [“There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/there-s-a-psychological-mechanism-i-ve-come-to-believe-that-prevents-2/) [Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef4/aleksandar-hemon-1490_death_there-s-a-psychological-mechanism-i-ve-c_1143664.jpg) > [How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-batchelor/how-extraordinary-it-is-to-be-here-at-all-awareness-of-death-can-jolt/) [Stephen Batchelor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-batchelor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab6/stephen-batchelor-5328_air_how-extraordinary-it-is-to-be-here-at-al_1476648.jpg) > [“The entirety of your existence is but a breath an empty empyrean of grace without favor love is agonizingly the only way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-limn/the-entirety-of-your-existence-is-but-a-breath-an-empty-empyrean-of/) [Jeremy Limn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-limn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac4/jeremy-limn-301_grace_the-entirety-of-your-existence-is-but-a_2239379.jpg) > [We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/we-cannot-too-soon-convince-ourselves-how-easily-we-may-be-dispensed/) [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afa/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_absence_we-cannot-too-soon-convince-ourselves-ho_2547211.jpg) > [“Live knowing that you are already dust, long gone, already outside time and looking in, reviewing life, finally understanding every déja vu,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/live-knowing-that-you-are-already-dust-long-gone-already-outside-time/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ade/alan-moore-583_2004_live-knowing-that-you-are-already-dust-l_2694988.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existence-breath/#itemlist", "name": "Existence Breath Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“He leaned forward, eyes gleaming with enthusiasm. As he spoke, he lifted the kettle from the oil flame and poured steaming water into the cup and a bowl. Ginger and cinnamon wafted toward me. “All of time, every sliced instant of it, is rich with vertices of choices. One becomes accustomed to that, to the point at which sometimes even I have to stop and remind myself that I am making choices, even when I do not seem to be. Every indrawn breath is a choice. But sometimes one is reminded of that forcibly, sometimes I meet a person so laden with possibilities and potential that the mere existence of such a being is a jolt to reality. You are like that, still, to me. The sheer improbability of your existence took my breath away. … Yet here you are, with me still, defying the odds by existing. And by your existence, with every breath you take, you change all time. You are like a wedge driven into dry wood. With every beat of your heart, you are pounded deeper into ‘what might be’ and as you advance, you crack the future open, and expose a hundred, a thousand new possibilities, each branching into another hundred, another thousand.” p. 264 The Fool to Fitz”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robin Hobb" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-hobb/he-leaned-forward-eyes-gleaming-with-enthusiasm-as-he-spoke-he-lifted/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abe/robin-hobb-489_life_he-leaned-forward-eyes-gleaming-with-ent_1123490.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abe/robin-hobb-489_life_he-leaned-forward-eyes-gleaming-with-ent_1123490.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abe/robin-hobb-489_life_he-leaned-forward-eyes-gleaming-with-ent_1123490.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He leaned forward, eyes gleaming with enthusiasm. 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Still, as we mature into our mortality, we begin to gingerly dip our horror-tingling toes into the void, hoping that our mind will somehow ease itself into dying, that God or some other soothing opiate will remain available as we venture into the darkness of non-being.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aleksandar Hemon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/there-s-a-psychological-mechanism-i-ve-come-to-believe-that-prevents-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef4/aleksandar-hemon-1490_death_there-s-a-psychological-mechanism-i-ve-c_1143664.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef4/aleksandar-hemon-1490_death_there-s-a-psychological-mechanism-i-ve-c_1143664.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef4/aleksandar-hemon-1490_death_there-s-a-psychological-mechanism-i-ve-c_1143664.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment…” — Aleksandar Hemon", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer a routine inhalation of air but a quivering intake of life. The eye is quickened to the play of light and shade and color, the ear to the intricate medley of sound. This is where the meditation leads. Stay with it; rest with it. 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What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/we-cannot-too-soon-convince-ourselves-how-easily-we-may-be-dispensed/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afa/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_absence_we-cannot-too-soon-convince-ourselves-ho_2547211.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afa/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_absence_we-cannot-too-soon-convince-ourselves-ho_2547211.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afa/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_absence_we-cannot-too-soon-convince-ourselves-ho_2547211.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important…” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Live knowing that you are already dust, long gone, already outside time and looking in, reviewing life, finally understanding every déja vu, your own guardian angel. Know that the scorched-black demons and the pristine, fluttering seraphs are in some sense naught but you yourself unpacked, unfolded in a higher space from whence the myriad gods unfurl, not bygone legends but your once and future selves, your attributes blossomed into their purest and most potent symbol-forms. And these, with all their beast-heats, crowns and lightings, all their different colors, are become combined into the single whiteness that is godhead. That is all . This, then, is revelation. All is one, and all is deity, this beautiful undying fire of being that is everywhere about us; that we are. O man, o woman, know yourself, and know you are divine. Respect yourself, respect the least phenomenon of your existence as it were the breath of God. Know that our universe is all one place, a single firelit room, all time a single moment. Know that there has only ever been one person here. Know you are everything, forever. Know I love you.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alan Moore" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/live-knowing-that-you-are-already-dust-long-gone-already-outside-time/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ade/alan-moore-583_2004_live-knowing-that-you-are-already-dust-l_2694988.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ade/alan-moore-583_2004_live-knowing-that-you-are-already-dust-l_2694988.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ade/alan-moore-583_2004_live-knowing-that-you-are-already-dust-l_2694988.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Live knowing that you are already dust, long gone, already outside time and looking in, reviewing life…” — Alan Moore", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existence-breath/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existence-breath/", "name": "Existence Breath Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existence-breath/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abe/robin-hobb-489_life_he-leaned-forward-eyes-gleaming-with-ent_1123490.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 6 Existence Breath quotes by 6 authors. 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