Quotes About Existence

It's so beautiful. Spinner stared at the eagle wings of the Nebula, drinking in its pale colors. Louise, I'm so lucky to be here, to see this. Uvarov might have sent someone else through the Locks, that first time; not me and Arrow Maker. You might have asked someone else to learn to run your nightfighter for you - and not me. Louise, I might have missed this. I might have died without seeing it - without ever knowing it existed.

Humanity is a young species in a very old universe, it was expected that any intelligence out there, if they exist all, were probably much older than mankind-and perhaps that very advancement was why we couldn't perceive them.

death was a termination, an end of existence, and those who had gone were as meaningless as evaporated dew, their very identities lost after a generation.

It is as if we are all embedded in a vast graph of possibilities, a graph with an axis marked time, for our own future destiny, and an axis marked space, for the possibilities of the universe.

what is existence but an endless, ultimately futile delaying of the inevitable?

Space is for the cephalopods, Maura. It never was meant for us.

She was capable of suffering – that was the price of sentience.

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

But there have only ever been fewer than two hundred billion human beings

I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that.

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.

we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning

I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist.

Five minutes of a lifetime

I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here.

It's like my very first memory, which I guess is the first time I was aware that I was alive.

I think you of all people are alive and appreciates what that means.

people are alive and appreciate what that means. At least I hope you do because other

That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that.

I think you of all people would understand that because you of all people are alive and appreciate what that means.

he tried another poem and he called it Absolutely Nothing because that's what it was really all about