Quotes About Existence

Since appearance can't be peeled decisively from the reality of a thing, attunement is a living, dynamic relation with another being.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.

I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

What you can show using physics, forces this universe to continue to exist. As long as you're using general relativity and quantum mechanics you are forced to conclude that God exists.

It's so weird how our existence hinges on just absolute crazy chance, but it feels so essential. It's like, 'Nothing would be here if you weren't here,' because you are the centre of your universe.

Without hip-hop, Da Brat wouldn't exist.

The idea that all we have is everything that's come before us, and we are the accumulated weight of our own personal histories, is a beautiful concept. And yet it also leaves you asking, 'Is that all there is? Is that all that defines us? Is that all we have?'

Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

I've found you don't have to make anything up. Reality is so complex and fascinating and horrible and beautiful.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it.

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

What I question about the afterlife is how many people just accept it and don't question it, because I think living for an eternity would be much worse than dying.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.