Quotes About Existence

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

I've always had this 'carve out your own existence' attitude and I'm always encouraging other people to do this, if they can. Of course not everyone has the choice. I've been lucky.

The 'cash me ousside' girl isn't even a person. She doesn't exist.

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

I don't know that I want to live in a world without cheese.

When you are born into a body that takes the image of another, you ask yourself a question much like the famous 'chicken and egg' conundrum. Do you take the form of he, or does he take the form of you?

Even your chin is made up of exploded stars.

The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.

I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.

I got on the quizzing circuit, that's how I heard about the existence of 'The Chase'.

You want to be a citizen of the world, and then life happens, and you forget to be a citizen of the world; you're a citizen of your own existence.

The entire existence of the NFL - and of football at any level, for all of that - rests on whether or not the game can keep fooling itself, and its paying fan base, that it is somehow superior to boxing and to the rest of our modern blood sports.

In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world.

I don't feel superior because I think there's no God. Actually, I would love to be able to go, 'Well, the world hasn't been kind to me, but there's something good around the corner, because the Man has a plan.' I wish I believed that. There's wonderful comfort in that.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of something greater than yourself. And it is. But it's not supernatural.

The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is 'it' or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith.