Quotes About Existence

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

Now, you might think to increase those numbers, you might add thousands of fish. Think again. Fish live a Darwinian existence. A female walleye can lay 50,000 eggs in a single night, but in a stable population, all but two will perish before adulthood from predation, starvation, and other perils.

We are part of the universe that has developed a remarkable ability: We can hold an image of the world in our minds. We are matter contemplating itself.

The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.

As we understand the world better, the idea that it has a transcendent purpose seems increasingly untenable.

Nothingness, after all, is simpler than any one particular existing thing ever could be; there is only one nothing, and many kinds of something.

Everybody dies. Life is not a substance, like water or rock; it's a process, like fire or a wave crashing on the shore. It's a process that begins, lasts for a while, and ultimately ends. Long or short, our moments are brief against the expanse of eternity.

Life is a process, not a substance, and it is necessarily temporary. We are not the reason for the existence of the universe, but our ability for self-awareness and reflection makes us special within it.

Life ends, and that's part of what makes it special. What exists is here, in front of us, what we can see and touch and affect. Our lives are not dress rehearsals in which we plan and are tested in anticipation of the real show to come. This is it, the only performance we're going to get to give, and it is what we make of it.

Life is not a substance, like water or rock; it's a process, like fire or a wave crashing on the shore. It's a process that begins, lasts for a while, and ultimately ends. Long or short, our moments are brief against the expanse of eternity.

Our actual universe evolves to empty space.

Space itself is not fundamental; it's just a useful way of talking from certain points of view.

at a deeper level, our anthropocentrism manifests itself as a conviction that human beings somehow matter to the universe.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.

Everything is so finite but that's what makes our time and specific moments so important.

I think that the world ended a long time ago and no one realizes it. We're in a dream somewhere in a vortex of energy that just hasn't realized its nonexistence yet.

Does killing time damage eternity?

Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the moment they're not actually dying.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.