Quotes About Existence

Midwives and winding sheets know birthing is hard and dying is mean and living's a trial in between. Why do we journey, muttering like rumors among the stars? Is a dimension lost? Is it love?

Nice to know I have that effect on boys. I mean, Christopher doesn't even know I exist, and Brandon Stark practically throws up when he sees me. Having my brain transplated into a supermodel's body was doing wonders for my love life.

And I think What does it matter that it is not a linear equation if any variable is raised to a power? We're all just going to die anyway.

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

Costis followed, telling himself that it wasn't true that he and the king and even the stone under their feet were nothing but tissue, transparently thin, and that for a moment, the only real thing in the universe had been there on the parapet with the king.

But if I hadn't lost the hand, I'd be another person entirely by now. Wishing for the hand back would be like wishing the man I already am, to be replaced by some stranger. It would be wishing my own self out of existence.

Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the easy part. The hard part is what's right in front of you. The hard part is learning how to hold the title to your very existence, to own not only property, but also your life.

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

We are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born.

Nobody at any time is cut off from God.

Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.

Sometimes she was even sure that she had ever really existed.

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

Have you ever seen a germ? Aunt Gertrude asked without waiting for Eliza's reply. Neither have I, yet I have no doubt they exist, because I have seen their effects on the body. Likewise I have never 'seen' love, yet I have witnessed again and again its transformative effect on human beings.

have you ever seen a germ? Neither have I, yet I have no doubt they exists, because I have seen their effects on the body. Likewise I have never 'seen' love, yet I have witnessed again and again its transformative effect on human beings.

Viva la vida. Live the life. And I think maybe I still can.

life itself is a glorious opportunity.

Trying to imagine heaven could be like... trying to picture the fourth dimension. We can't do it. But that doesn't mean it's not there.

Pensa sem cessar que és homem, isto é, o vivente mais sujeito aos caprichos da sorte.

Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.

I was not. I was. I am not. I care not.

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It's the living we fear.

He was alive, and that was a great gift—so great, that it hardly seemed polite to grumble about the terms.