Quotes About Existence

seeing is believing they say and if boundaries are limitless are we? or is existence twofold and doomed before the sights are set and if so does God really weep for humanity and must we continue to seek sustenance through escapism and do sporting events in all their microcosmic glory refute the tenets of nihilism or should we simply accept and wallow in our ignorance unbearable lightness of being creatures who feel what -- I don't know

We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities

Philosophy should address every aspect of our lives — the sacred, the profane, and even the mundane.

We don't see the life after life as it truly is, because in our eyes it conforms to our mechanics of nature.

To be a "thing" that thinks and moves and wants...that's MIRACULOUS.

Just as pictures and the intervals between them create the illusion of time through closure, words introduce time by representing that which can only exist in time--sound.

but no creature ever asked to be born, they just got squirted out slimy and squealing into the world and told to deal with it or get out of the way for the next one.

Well, who's real? The living or the dead?

Because consciousness is ultimately a matter of faith," James said

Who will speak my name so I might taste eternity if no one knows i ever drew breath?

Every NPC needs a role. A job. A reason for living.

I sometimes wonder if all other animals, all plants, maybe even stars and rivers and rocks, dwell in steady awareness of God, while humans alone, afflicted with self-consciousness, imagine ourselves apart.

I was created to be destroyed.

I made it clear to the world that what Jade and I had found in each other was more real than any other world, more real than time, more real than death, more real, even, than she and I.

I never think of the life I'll miss after I'm dead, or all that I missed before I was born. It's the time I'm as good as dead during this, my one and only life, that makes me tear at my hair. It seems to me that if I carefully gathered all of the time I was entirely alive I would have amassed perhaps two years of life so far...

I had known another world. It is impossible to give it a name. There are words like enchantment, words like bliss, but they didn't say it, they were stupid words. No words really said it. There was nothing to say about it except that I had known it, it had been mine. It was the one real thing, more real than the world.

We all know perfectly well that the man who lives out his life as a consumer," he writes in "The Coming Crisis in Psychiatry," "a sexual partner, an 'other-directed' executive; who avoids boredom and anxiety by consuming tons of newsprint, miles of film, years of TV time; that such a man has somehow betrayed his destiny as a human being.

This is life. You know the philosphers? The Present never stops. There's only the Present. You cheat life if you live in the Past.

Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow and spend my days in shame? (Jer. 20:18)

There is a deeper life than the life we see and hear with the open ear and the open eye and this is the life important and the life everlasting.

How perilous is it to choose not to love the life we're shown?

For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end.

Was music once a proof of God's existence? As long as it admits things beyond measure, That supposition stands.

The land of the living, sister, Is neither here nor there. We enter it and we leave it. The dead in the land of the dead Are the ones you'll be with longest.