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Quotes About Existence

You say marriage," she muttered. "I say prison sentence." He pursed his lips. "So, instead of the fairy-tale existence every woman dreams of as a child, you're forced to live in a physically cold relationship with an abusive philanderer for at least another year?" "Way to sum it up." Maritza sent out a caustic laugh. "Do me a favor. Kill me now." The
~ John Tucker
In reality, the universe is neutral about our existence. Only dogs care.
~ John Twelve Hawks
Religion, history, and philosophy are just fictions we've invented to explain our meaningless world.
~ John Twelve Hawks
No one seems to realize how immense consciousness really is. It ties us to the rest of the universe.
~ John Twelve Hawks
The Grid still exists even if you don't see the lines
~ John Twelve Hawks
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
~ John Tyndall
Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
~ John Updike
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
~ John Updike
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
~ John Updike
We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living.
~ John Updike
Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?
~ John Updike
What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?
~ John Updike
That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one might say, "See this, it is new"? Already it has existed for ages which were before us.…" The
~ John V. Panella
We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
~ John V. Politis
Traveling in these giant cedar canoes, the Haida would regularly paddle their home into, and out of, existence. With each collective paddle stroke they would have seen their islands sinking steadily into the sea while distant snow-covered peaks scrolled up before them like a new planet. Few people alive today have any notion of how it might feel to pull worlds up from beyond the horizon by faith and muscle alone.
~ John Vaillant
Gaea is one. Gaea is alive. We live inside her.
~ John Varley
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
~ John Warnock
The question is what is the question?
~ John Wheeler
One of the artifices of Satan is, to induce men to believe that he does not exist.
~ John Wilkinson
Her earnestness and apparent belief of what she narrated, excited the interest even of Aubrey; and often, as she told him the tale of the living vampyre, who had passed years amidst his friends, and dearest ties, forced every year, by feeding upon the life of a lovely female to prolong his existence for the ensuing months, his blood would run cold, whilst he attempted to laugh her out of such idle and horrible fantasies
~ John William Polidori
Courage, my dear fellow,' said I, 'there is no space too great to allow of the sun's rays enlivening it—neither is that heart in existence which hope may not inhabit.
~ John William Polidori
It is fortunate that youth never recognizes its ignorance, for if it did it would not find the courage to get the habit of endurance. It is perhaps an instinct of the blood and flesh which prevents this knowledge and allows the boy to become the man who will live to see the folly of his existence.
~ John Williams
So we are of the world, after all; we should have known that. We did know it, I believe; but we had to withdraw a little, pretend a little, so that we could—
~ John Williams
Supongo que hago esto porque no importa si lo hago o no. Y puede ser divertido pasear por el mundo una vez más antes de regresar a los claustros y a la lenta extinción que nos aguarda a todos».
~ John Williams