"Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'"

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"Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'"

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"Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it."

Marilynne Robinson, American Author

Existence, Birth, Life, Darkness

"If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Existence, Meaning, Values, Impact

"We live in the shadows of perception. Our dull awareness gives us no useful clues as to why we are here."

R. A. Delmonico, American Author

Existence, Perception, Awareness, Mystery

"Disquietude that springs from the fundamental nature of being a human being is vaster and more encompassing than depression, which has a cause and therefore a cure."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Existence, Human, Nature, Depression, Cause

"All life depends upon the opportunistic interplay between elemental forces, the mysterious dualities of the numinous universe. Ying and yang forces of the natural world (lightness and darkness, fire and water, expansion and contraction) create tangible dualities that are complementary, interconnected, and independent. Without the firmament in the midst of the waters, without both sunshine and water, no life forms could subsist on this rocky orb. Without the rich soil surrounded by a canopy of an illimitable sky how could we feed ourselves, how could we breathe?"

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Existence, Life, Nature, Balance

"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Existence, Memories

"This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those oozing walls, --what declaimers!"

Victor Hugo, French Author

Existence, Reality, Perception, Truth

"Every sacred existence is history of time."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Existence, Sacred, History, Time

"I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Existence, Self, Needs, Isolation

"No one was created in vain."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Existence, Creation, Value, Purpose

Explore more quotes by Michael Phelps

"Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz."

Being

"I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming."

Change

"I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it."

Time

"I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now."

Time

"I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along."

Change

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

Dream

"I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team."

Thought

"My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'"

People

"If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy."

Friendship

"I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future."

Life