Quotes About Existence

The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

We can trace things back to the earlier stages of the Big Bang, but we still don't know what banged and why it banged. That's a challenge for 21st-century science.

If we do find ET, we will at least have something in common with them. They may live on planet Zog and have seven tentacles, but they will be made of the same kinds of atoms as us. If they have eyes, they will gaze out on the same cosmos as we do. They will, like us, trace their origins back to a 'Big Bang' 13.8 billion years ago.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you.

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

I believe in Darwin and God together.

There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.

I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.

I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

Together we all live every moment On the very brink; The razor's edge Of ecstasy or disaster.

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.