Quotes About Existence

the crime of my existence in the world, was invisible and inconceivable.

Fiecare b?taie de inim? omeneasc?, este un univers de posibilit??i.

of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.

Ka?de uderzenie ludzkiego serca jest kosmosem mo?liwo?ci

There is no believing in God,' he declared, smiling again. 'We either know God, or we do not.

Who are we to believe in God?' she said, her lips only lashes from my face. 'It should be enough for anyone that God believes in us.

Well,' I laughed, 'I certainly don't know God, and frankly I'm inclined to think that God is impossible to believe in, at least most of the notions of God that I've come across.' 'Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.' He

The first is this: that pain and suffering are connected, but they are not the same thing. Pain can exist without suffering, and it is also possible to suffer without feeling pain.

Every human heartbeat, he'd said many times, is a universe of possibilities.

Most people spend a good deal of energy denying that one day they will die. The common perception is that time flows forward from birth and ends with a huge question mark at death—a view that makes life meaningless and absurd. But this is a mistake. I believe it was the philosopher Martin Heidegger who asserted that time flows backward from death giving life its meaning. Death clarifies.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away.

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.

Our thoughts do not actually exist; they are only pictures. A great error was made at the end of the last human developmental period when existence was equated with thinking. 'Cogito ergo sum' is the greatest error ever placed at the head of the modern world view.

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

As a German, in view of the history of World War II and the terrible deeds of the Nazi period, I feel a special obligation to help as much as I can to develop European-Israeli relations and thus contribute to ensuring Israel's future and existence.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.