Quotes About Existence

We are not the reason for the existence of the universe, but our ability for self-awareness and reflection makes us special within it.

The meaning we find in life is not transacendent, but it's no less meaningful for that.

All that human energy, wasted, in response to the simple fact that we know we are going to die, and we don't know what happens after, and we're afraid that this life is all there is.

I don't believe in God because there is one, I believe in God because there should be.

As Albert Einstein said: The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

A dog doesn't understand mathematics, but that doesn't mean mathematics doesn't exist.

If who I am is what I have and what I have is lost, then who am I?

If we are what we have, and we have nothinh, thenwho are we? Are we nothing?

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamed of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?" - Chuang Tzu

I think, therefore I am... not related to you.

All the world's a stage, and most of us are desperately under-rehearsed.

deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive.

Joseph Campbell said, deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive.

What does it all mean?" many wonder while chasing purposes they're told are worthwhile, but which feel empty. "What is the purpose of this life?" humans have wondered for millennia, contemplating how insignificant we are in the great cosmic symphony.

we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive.

The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.

He was merely floating there in the room, insubstantial, a living man in the midst of life, dying imperceptibly on his feet, like all of us.

It is worthless talking about what we have been spared by death. Death grins at that I am sure. Death of all creation knows the value of life.

There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures.

I thought it would be a good thing to follow John Redmond's words. I thought for my mother's sake, her gentle soul, for the sake of my own children, I might go out and fight for to save Europe so that we might have the Home Rule in Ireland in the upshot. I came out to fight for a country that doesn't exist, and now, Willie, mark my words, it never will.

To the extend that a man with the soul filleted out of him could be happy. Since the things he had wished for were no more, he wished for nothing. He breathed in and out. That was all.

It would all go on, for ever, the little glories of life.

He liked it for its modesty among the bigger efforts. Like a human soul should be in the world, among elephants, galaxies.

Oh dear, oh dear, I sat there. I am sitting there still. I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.