Quotes About Existence

The meaning of life is life.

Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn't make it less meaningful. They're both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we're given.

I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

The way I see life, there is only one God, and all the rest are human.

No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.

As human beings, our lives should be in retrospect with God.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.

I just enjoy the ride while I have it.

Unfortunately I am a human being and not a robot.

Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

I think the saddest thing in the world will be for people who face their death and realize they never lived. That won't be me.

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

The thought of real-life scares me to death.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

And as I have always said, the only thing more scary than knowing we are not alone in the universe is knowing we are alone in the universe.

With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.

I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.

One of my favorite books is 'Man's Search for Meaning.'