Quotes About Existence

My religion is life, and my church is the universe.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.

Nothing is certain except death and taxes.

but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe i shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

nothing is certain in life except death and taxes

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.

Und es gibt Menschen, die behaupten, Gott hätte das gesamte Universum erschaffen, um sich selbst sehen zu können. So wie wir immer unter Menschen gehen, weil wir uns über andere Menschen definieren. Weil wir nur durch die Art, wie sie sind, erkennen können, wie wir sind.

Hast du manchmal Angst?", fragt er. "Ich meine nicht Angst vor einer Prüfung. Oder dem Erzieher. Sondern so richtig Angst. So Angst vor dem Leben. Weißt du?" Troy schluckt. Er beugt sich nach vorn. "Leben ist Angst haben", sage ich. Mir wird unangenehm. Eigentlich habe ich noch nie darüber nachgedacht. Aber ich glaube, es stimmt.

Immer wenn ich traurig bin versuche ich an Fotoalben zu denken. Immer wenn ich daran zweifle, ob es gut, dass ich existiere, dann blättere ich in meinem Geiste all die Fotoalben durch, Fotoalben verschiedenster Menschen aus verschiedensten Ländern, in denen zufällig und ohne dass diese Menschen Notiz davon nehmen würden, ein Foto klebt, auf dem ich zu sehen bin...

No other country faces both constant threats to its existence and constant criticism for acting against such threats.

if he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with the same sinew but in another design.

Unser Gedächtnis ist der wahre Sitz unseres Ich.

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.

Life is in fact mortal, and the immortal things are flesh, energy, individuality, and spirit in its various guises.

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Have you noticed that all the people in favour of birth control are already born?

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.