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Quotes About Existence

There is no possibility that the Killers, if they still exist around Leviathan, have knowledge of humans," the mom continued
~ Greg Bear
No immunity and no cure. There is only struggle, or succumb. Either way, the Primordial will have its due. We have met our creators, they have given us the answers we sought—and that is our curse.
~ Greg Bear
Living things see only the surface, can't exist in the depths. Life is painted on the surface of the real. Death is the great unexplored volume. Death rises from the inaccessible, depth and death sounding so much alike … There
~ Greg Bear
What if they exist because of us?
~ Greg Bishop
God is all powerful. God is good. Evil exists. You can reconcile any two of those statements, but not all three.
~ Greg Iles
Reality abides in the eyes.
~ Greg Iles
God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When
~ Greg Iles
Hannah Arendt had it right: evil is incomprehensibly banal. The existentialists went her one better: it's also absurd, and terrifyingly so.
~ Greg Iles
Faith is something you have or you don't, and to pretend you do in the hope of gaining some last-minute dispensation from a being whose existence you have denied all your life goes against everything I am. I have never placed myself above God. I simply cannot find within myself the capacity for belief.
~ Greg Iles
Gravity crosses the dimensions, including time," he said.
~ Greg Keyes
Sometimes it was as effortless as breathing. Sometimes it was as hard as living.
~ Greg Rucka
At that moment they ceased being human beings and began to be human doings.
~ Gregory A. Boyd
What makes a human being human? When does a human being become a person? When does a human being cease to be a person? What is the significance of being human? Is there an inherent value with inherent rights that go along with being human? These
~ Gregory A. Boyd
The flesh is not a nature that is essential to someone's identity. It is rather a deceptive way of seeing and experiencing oneself and one's world and thus a deceptive way of living in the world.
~ Gregory A. Boyd
The very fact that what God creates is less than Himself introduces limitations and imperfections into the picture.
~ Gregory A. Boyd
IT IS OUR STATION TO LIVE WITHIN LAWS THAT GIVE US BEING, BUT OFFER OF THEMSELVES NO PURPOSE OR PROMISE, NO TRIUMPH AS A SPECIES. THE UNIVERSE ALLOWS US A PLACE IN ITS SYSTEMATIC WORKINGS BUT ONLY CARES FOR THE SYSTEM ITSELF, NOT US.
~ Gregory Benford
Immortality is an aim, not a fact.
~ Gregory Benford
Sometimes being human is harder than it looks.
~ Gregory Benford
Visible light was a mere one octave on a keyboard fifteen meters wide—humanity's slice of reality.
~ Gregory Benford
But then, why did the mechs have no religion?
~ Gregory Benford
Time goes, you say? ah no! Alas, time stays, we go.
~ Gregory Benford
To Memor philosophy was like a blind being searching a dark room for an unknown, black beast. When philosophy verged into theology, it was like the same predicament, but the black beast did not even exist.
~ Gregory Benford
There's too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that's what heaven is---- a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists. Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion.
~ Gregory David Roberts