Quotes About Existence

When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

We all know, either implicitly or explicitly, that all we really have is our place in the memories of others. We exist to the degree that we know and remember one another. Even the most isolated among us. We share a collective understanding that we are all part of a greater whole. Perhaps

All memory is a form of fiction. But all fiction is a form of reality.

We are human in expression but divine in creation and limitless in potentiality.

Trabaja no para cubrir tus gastos, sino para vivir.

Creation is not something that God does, or did. It is what God is. It is what you are.

God is not a person to whom we should pray, but a spirit by which we should live.

God is a sphere whose center Is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. It is not

La Verdad no es palabras, afirmaciones, libros o enseñanzas. La Verdad es un fluir universal que sólo puede ser atrapado vagamente en la red de la conciencia humana.

Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.

At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.

Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.

We look back and we look ahead, but we live in the time we are allowed.

I deny the fact that when I kill time, time is actually killing me

With every step he felt he was losing some part of himself, the way we gradually lose our memory of what we once thought mattered, pulling us faster towards that emptiness in which we are no longer human.

If a single misleading sentence is to sum up the relations of artist and society in this era, we might say that the French Revolution inspired him by its example, the Industrial Revolution by its horror, and the bourgeois society, which emerged from both, transformed his very existence and modes of creation.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Life has a very simple plot, First you're here And then you're not.

Notice that your judgments of what exists are the same kind of judgments you make about how to live your life. There aren't two kinds of things we do: judge what exists and decide what we want to do about it. Fundamentally, there is one kind of thing we do: live our lives. And we can reflect on this activity more or less abstractly.

If you truly think there's a heaven when you die then your consciousness's last action is it to tell itself you're in heaven and it plays out your idea of heaven for you for eternity. If you think there's nothing after you die, then your consciousness tells you there's nothing, and it is all over.