Quotes About Existence

I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.

We simply do not find anything in the laws of nature that in any way corresponds to ideas of goodness, justice, love, or strife

And there is also the understanding that you're creating, which is really discovering, it is again still valuable. Everything exists already. It is infinite. The matrix is infinite. So there is a sense of discovery. We will be discovering it eternally.

It is like the making of music. It is as simple as that. All the notes on a piano, for example, already exist. But music is discovered through the piano, but no new notes are discovered.

I had this sudden awareness,' she continues, 'of how the moments of our lives go out of existence before we're conscious of having lived them. It's only a relatively few moments that we get to keep and carry with us for the rest of our lives. Those moments are our lives. Or maybe it's more like those moments are the dots in what we call our lives, or the lines we draw between them, connecting them into imaginary pictures of ourselves.

Does a society live in a shared reality?

Personally I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we're not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule? - Kinsey Millhone

Everything happens for a reason but that doesn't mean there is a point.

Let's face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.

There's no point to anything if you get right down to it. We could all blow out brains out, but we don't.

I tried to imagine myself dead, someone sorting carelessly through my belongings. What was there really of my life? Canceled checks. Reports all typewritten and filed. Everything of value reduced to terse prose. I didn't keep much myself, didn't hoard or save.

Love is our bulwark, designed to provide emotional protection so we can cope with the ups and downs of existence.

Emotion, we've discovered, is a sharp, smart force that organizes and elevates our lives. It is what transforms existence into experience. "I do not literally paint that table but the emotion it produces upon me," observed Matisse.

the way she felt about her past was that she had somehow come into being who she was without any connection to it. As if floating in naked and unencumbered on some shell

She's thinking, it seems, of the course of her life; she's wondering, perhaps, if her story makes sense, if it means anything, or amounts to anything.

I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.

Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus of voices. Orphaned voices. They seemed to speak for all the unlived parts of me, and they came with a force and dazzle that I couldn't contain. They seemed to explode the boundaries of my existence. I know now that they were the clamor of a new self struggling to be born.

I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.

Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.

God is he whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere.

And it comes to me that the echoes of my own life will likely die away in that way thunder does. But this life, what a shining thing—it is enough.

I felt I'd stumbled upon an amazing secret—it was possible to close your eyes and exit life without actually dying.

Mr. Vesey, though, he didn't like any kind of talk about heaven. He said that was the coward's way, pining for life in the hereafter, acting like this one didn't mean a thing. I had to side with him on that.