Quotes About Existence

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

When through the power of sight we see white, that which comes about in the soul through the act of seeing is a modification. And on the basis of this modification, we are able to say that the white which is affecting us exists.

As an anthropology major, I wanted to understand the cultural significance of poverty - why it exists and why some countries can rise above it while others can't.

Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness.

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.

'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

There are so many possibilities of life out there that an alien doesn't have to have green, long tentacles. They can be very similar to us.

Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

I grew up on a farm, so I've always been keen on nature, animals and the simpler things in the life - that simple existence.

The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

What am I? Do I know? I am a man: quite simply, a 'breather.'