Quotes About Existence

to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory...

Human love can be only a pale reflection of the emotion that God must feel for what He has created

There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic,too,and what he had experienced was vacancy-a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no prose at all. He knew.

What will we care for the why and the wherefore?

Un hombre sin recuerdos puede llegar a los cien años y sentir que su vida ha sido muy corta.

There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic,too,and what he had experienced was vacancy-a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all. He knew

You don't believe in Him, do you?' 'No.' 'Things to me wouldn't make sense without Him.' 'They don't make sense to me with him.

I laugh at anyone who spends so much time writing about what doesn't exist - mental concepts.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

All characters once dead, if they continue to exist in memory at all, tend to become fictions.

But what are you supposed to love, then, in the bitch and the fake? Where do you find that immortal soul they talk about? Where do you see this lovely thing in me—in me, of all people? [...] Tell me, God, and I'll set about robbing you of it forever.

If I eliminate everything, how will I exist?

When we get to the end of human beings we have to delude ourselves into a belief in God.

in a flash of insight he became aware of the innumerable necessary evils of which life for her was made up.

Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever.

If I were writing a novel I would end it here: a novel, I used to think, has to end somewhere, but I'm beginning to believe my realism has been at fault all these years, for nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story ended here.

My dear, try to believe we exist when you aren't there. We're independent of you. None of us is like you fancy we are. Perhaps it wouldn't matter much if your thoughts were not so dark, always so dark.

St Augustine asked where time came from. He said it came out of the future which didn't exist yet, into the present that had no duration, and went into the past which had ceased to exist.

It always seemed strange to Wormold that he continued to exist for others when he was not there.

What he doesn't consider, in other words, is the possibility that consciousness comes first while physical realms and beings are manifestations or projections of that primordial consciousness—as above, so below, as many ancient wisdom traditions state.

We are consciousness incarnated in stardust

just your bodies and there is no such thing as the soul, or if you do believe that the soul exists then you often do so blindly, according to religious dogmas rather than personal inquiry. You

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. CHARLES DE LINT

Such arrogant certainty,' said the serpent with relish. 'How pleasing that is to me. All the very worst sins are accomplished with such certainty: gluttony, wrath, lust… pride. No force in existence can compete with mortals in the grip of certainty.